Funny comment although I know nothing about programming languages.

Ubuntu, an ancient African word meaning "I can't configure Debian".

It was worth it just for that.

Probably wasn't really that noteworthy, but to me, Metafilter and Dr Dobbs are separate worlds and it's a little weird if they ever intersect. Sort of like Batman showing up in an episode of Star Trek.

Ha! I consider it noteworthy, but I'm hardly a fair judge. I had forgotten about that thread.

And good (and true -- goddam Prolog) line aside, I'm really pretty fond of LISP.

And man, I'd love to comment there, but you need to register and there's a hell of a lot of required info (ADDRESS?) that doesn't have a lot to do with me wanting to reply to a quote. I don't think I'm the target demo.

I'd go as far as to suggest that if only two fields of like twenty aren't required, you should set them off with "optional" instead of throwing a "required" icon next to every single other field. Ah well.

I'm no Lisper, but I wrote a bunch of Prolog in school (in the 80s, it was in vogue then) and I loved it. I keep thinking that someday I'll get back to writing some.

I'd go as far as to suggest that if only two fields of like twenty aren't required, you should set them off with "optional" instead of throwing a "required" icon next to every single other field. Ah well.

They're all old C programmers over there. You can't expect good web design...

I encountered Prolog under unfavorable circumstances, whereas LISP and I met under the vaseline-blurred lens of love.

I like the idea of Prolog a lot, but I have never, ever had a desire to actually use it for anything.

Parenthesis jokes? Geez, people were refereeing to the name deriving from "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses" from pretty much the beginning.

LISP is my favorite language, so much about it is just totally the right. I did some Prolog as well back in college, it kicks ass if you want to write a parser but so many normal operations in it are incredibly tedious. It'd make for a great library, letting you write parsers super efficiently and then do all the rest in a much more usable language. In fact I did write a Prolog in LISP and it was pretty sweet.

Is this where I bring up my love for the all-but-forgotten Forth?

I also played with a really weird structured data language called Jorf almost 20 years ago. *sigh* Nothing I fit with ever wins.