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.

Ooops... didn't mean to post that again.

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.

You know, I've been hearing that term, Enterprise, thrown about for a while now and I *still* don't know what it's supposed to mean. Maybe Wikipedia can help.

Enterprise software is software intended to solve an enterprise problem (rather than a departmental problem) and often written using an Enterprise Software Architecture

Off to a good start. So, what is an enterprise? Merriam Webster thinks that it is one of the following:

1. a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky
2. readiness to engage in daring or difficult action : initiative
3. a: a unit of economic organization or activity ; especially : a business organization b: a systematic purposeful activity

So, apparently, Enterprise Software can be software that helps one recite the alphabet backwards while drunk (difficult), pick random sex partners (risky), walk up to Mike Tyson to insult him (daring), or helps, for example, my little cousin run her lemonade stand (economic activity).

It is very nice to have Time Machine just come right "out of the box".

(ignore-errors (with-open-file (in *python*) (loop for symbol = (read in nil) while symbol)))

• NIL
• #<SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-ERROR {10026C2661}>

(ignore-errors (with-open-file (in *c++*) (loop for symbol = (read in nil) while symbol)))

• NIL
• #<SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-ERROR {1002DDF151}>

Personally, I can't read a lick of any of this but Python doesn't look any more readable than C++ to me. If there's a serious argument against this, it would be that a child of five would be able to read any Python code. Send somebody to fetch a child of five.