Kartik Agaram

"> the reason I wrote out separate variables is to show various different uses of the ':', '|', and "newline" operators in one example. Yeah, I appreciated your comment asides in the examples. The article is better for having them. However it's easier on the reader/student if the exposition goes through one thing at a time. These asides didn't blow my stack because I've built a similar system, but I can totally imagine them being crazy distracting. Introduce them later, perhaps with a 'putting it all together'." - Kartik Agaram

"I was with you until the the pipe, and even the semi-colon was ok, plausible. But then you introduced dot with this: > A simple example should make matters clear very quickly: That 'simple example' is hilariously hard to parse, as is the description of dot vs dot-period that follows. The only thing worse than an intricate explanation is an intricate explanation billed as simple :)" - Kartik Agaram

"After reading this I found http://www.etymonline.com/index... illuminating." - Kartik Agaram

"submitted by reddit to blog." - Kartik Agaram

"Gurmeet Manku (http://gurmeet.net) pointed me at the roots of the word 'happiness': from hap (n.) "chance, fortune" http://www.etymonline.com/inde... So traditionally happiness was something that *happened* to you, rather than something you pursued. It's only post-Industrial Revolution that we've conflated pleasure with tranquility." - Kartik Agaram

"What's with the #$%# evil ads on this story? Reported." - Kartik Agaram

"I've been exploring using method-chaining to separate concerns in a lisp-like language: http://github.com/akkarti... See, for example, how I start with a simple assignment operator (analogous to *setq*) and [extend it](https://github.com/akkarti...) to support assigning to new types (list index, hash key, etc.), new keywords (*rplaca*, etc.), and to support assigning multiple variables at once." - Kartik Agaram

"Dataflow programming: http://common-lisp.net/project..." - Kartik Agaram