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2 Lisp Haikus

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by: Hen Hanna - Mon, 15 May 2023 21:40 UTC

>>> Some Lisp haiku ( written by Oliver Scholz ) posted in honour of John McCarthy

---

On a cloudy day
you hear the cons cells whisper:
"We are lost and gone."

The file was open.
flying in a sparrow stole
a parenthesis
--- (posted) By israelrt at Tue, 2011-10-25

-------------- i'm not sure if i'm getting the 2nd one.

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by: Kaz Kylheku - Mon, 15 May 2023 22:07 UTC

On 2023-05-15, Hen Hanna <henhanna@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Some Lisp haiku ( written by Oliver Scholz ) posted in honour of John McCarthy
>
> ---
>
> On a cloudy day
> you hear the cons cells whisper:
> "We are lost and gone."
>
>
> The file was open.
> flying in a sparrow stole
> a parenthesis
> --- (posted) By israelrt at Tue, 2011-10-25
>
>
>
> -------------- i'm not sure if i'm getting the 2nd one.

A file was left open. A sparrow flew in, and flew off with a parenthesis
plucked from the file, thus causing a mysterious appearance of a problem
that didn't exist before.

This conflates the concept of a file being open (associated with an
in-memory file descriptor by the operating system, so that operations
are possible) and something like a room's window being left open.

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by: Hen Hanna - Mon, 15 May 2023 22:34 UTC

On Monday, May 15, 2023 at 3:09:11 PM UTC-7, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2023-05-15, Hen Hanna <henh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>> Some Lisp haiku ( written by Oliver Scholz ) posted in honour of John McCarthy
> >
> > ---
> >
> > On a cloudy day
> > you hear the cons cells whisper:
> > "We are lost and gone."
> >
> >
> > The file was open.
> > flying in a sparrow stole
> > a parenthesis
> > --- (posted) By israelrt at Tue, 2011-10-25
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------- i'm not sure if i'm getting the 2nd one.
> A file was left open. A sparrow flew in, and flew off with a parenthesis
> plucked from the file, thus causing a mysterious appearance of a problem
> that didn't exist before.
>
> This conflates the concept of a file being open (associated with an
> in-memory file descriptor by the operating system, so that operations
> are possible) and something like a room's window being left open.
>

thanks... 2 thoughts i had were:

1. the line [flying in a sparrow stole] sounds a bit awkward

isn't the meaning more clear like this?

> a flying-in sparrow stole
> a sparrow, flying in, stole
> a sparrow (flying in) stole
> a sparrow flew in and stole

2.
(The file was open.
a sparrow (flew in and) stole
a parenthesis

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by: Kaz Kylheku - Tue, 16 May 2023 00:35 UTC

On 2023-05-15, Hen Hanna <henhanna@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, May 15, 2023 at 3:09:11 PM UTC-7, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>> On 2023-05-15, Hen Hanna <henh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>>> Some Lisp haiku ( written by Oliver Scholz ) posted in honour of John McCarthy
>> >
>> > ---
>> >
>> > On a cloudy day
>> > you hear the cons cells whisper:
>> > "We are lost and gone."
>> >
>> >
>> > The file was open.
>> > flying in a sparrow stole
>> > a parenthesis
>> > --- (posted) By israelrt at Tue, 2011-10-25
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -------------- i'm not sure if i'm getting the 2nd one.
>> A file was left open. A sparrow flew in, and flew off with a parenthesis
>> plucked from the file, thus causing a mysterious appearance of a problem
>> that didn't exist before.
>>
>> This conflates the concept of a file being open (associated with an
>> in-memory file descriptor by the operating system, so that operations
>> are possible) and something like a room's window being left open.
>>
>
>
> thanks... 2 thoughts i had were:
>
> 1. the line [flying in a sparrow stole] sounds a bit awkward
>
> isn't the meaning more clear like this?

"flying in" is a phrase describing a secondary, parallel action to the
sparrow's activity of stealing. Or possibly, a kind of adjective phrase
identifying the sparrow.

Usually, in writing it is set off from the sentence by commas,
especially if extraposed out to the left. It can be appear to multiple
possible locations in the sentence:

Flying in, a sparrow stole a parenthesis.

A sparrow, flying in, stole a parenthesis.
(Nuance: secondary action.)

A sparrow flying in stole a parenthesis.
(Nuance: that sparrow which was flying in.)

? A sparrow stole, flying in, a parenthesis.

? A sparrow stole a parenthesis, flying in.

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devel / comp.lang.lisp / Re: 2 Lisp Haikus

Subject	Author
2 Lisp Haikus	Hen Hanna
Re: 2 Lisp Haikus	Kaz Kylheku
Re: 2 Lisp Haikus	Hen Hanna
Re: 2 Lisp Haikus	Kaz Kylheku