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2019-05-23

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emccue01:05:52

that sounds fascinating

respatialized01:05:40

anyone know the exact source/wording of the quotation that's something like "Lisp is a high level language, but you can still feel the bits between your fingers"?

respatialized00:05:31

I finally tracked this one down. It's from Guy Steele, quoted in "The Pattern on the Stone" by W. Daniel Hillis: "LISP is a high-level language, but you can still feel the bits sliding between your toes.”

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Daniel Hines15:05:18

Thanks for sharing. Never heard this before, but it’s quite fascinating.

mauricio.szabo01:05:51

@d4hines I've once used cucumber for a project in Ruby. It just wasn't worth it - in the end, you need to keep state in multiple places to make a test work, and you end up duplicating steps...

mauricio.szabo01:05:56

We ended up writing our tests in a way that we called functions / methods that resembled the cucumber syntax, but were machine friendly

Daniel Hines14:05:57

I think you and @U0NCTKEV8 have talked me out of Cucumber. The real thing I need is this record/playback thing, and cucumber will probably just make that harder.

Daniel Hines14:05:10

Thanks for the input.

mauricio.szabo17:05:57

The problem with Cucumber is that it's one of those ideas that sound fantastic in theory, but don't work on practice 🙂

respatialized00:05:31

I finally tracked this one down. It's from Guy Steele, quoted in "The Pattern on the Stone" by W. Daniel Hillis: "LISP is a high-level language, but you can still feel the bits sliding between your toes.”

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