At least /. lived up to my expectations as far as signal to noise ratio...

Lisp is not an interpreted language. Period. It is an interactive language. If an implementation decides to achieve this with an interpretor, that is possible. However, there are implementation for which all code is compiled. SBCL is such an implementation. I would include a snippet of the disassembly from SBCL but /code seems to think that posting such is using to many 'junk' characters.

Yes, start with something more credible, like Fox News.

Study: 38 Percent Of People Not Actually Entitled To Their Opinion

Oh, man... another friend just got laid off today. She'd worked at a fish market. Most of their customers are restaurants so I guess that would be the food service industry? And it's not just my slacker friends: "Unemployment Hits 7.2%, a 16-Year High". If you don't see the invisible hand of the market bitch slapping people all over the world, you must be spending too much time clapping for Tinkerbell and drinking the Kool-Aid. No less a former member of the Ayn Rand Collective, Alan Greenspan himself, told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that "those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholdersâ(TM) equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief." [1] Seriously, when an Objectivist starts to doubt the all encompassing wisdom of greed and self-interest, you know something big has happened.

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Ah, the Tinkerbell school of economics. Perhaps if Obama gives a special address and asks everyone to clap if they believe in fairies.

You've not seen people in your immediate area? Try reading something other than /. for your news. NPR reporter Ketzel Levine was doing a story about people losing their jobs and was let go from hers before she finished the piece. Anecdotal evidence not withstanding, do you think that all of the unemployment and foreclosure statistics are pure fabrication?

Where have you been looking? Do you know anyone works in retail? Or are all of your friends hot-shit coders with plenty of job security? I have friends who work in retail. Bloomberg.com has an article: "Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Macyâ(TM)s Inc. and Gap Inc. slashed earnings forecasts after the worst holiday- shopping season in 40 years squeezed retail profit margins." A friend of mine was a manager at the Gap and was recently let go. Shit does roll downhill, after all.

Ah, the Tinkerbell school of economics. Clap your hands if you believe!

And God has three aspects: recursion, Î-calculus, and Turing machine. All others are mere shadows of the true Form. Kleene, Church, and Turing are the prophets.