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I want this to be funny, but even the simplest of LISP is foreign to me. So I'm kinda like an English only speaking expat at a Hong-Kong Bar, where a local guy tells me a (dirty?) joke and I laugh, even though I didn't quite get all the details.

Well done?

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I thought I'd try writing a translation into Python. Not sure if it makes it any easier to follow, though...

http://pastebin.com/yK1HrZJQ

Since K was specifically invoked in the article,

    c: {[h;t]{(h;t)x}}                  / cons
    h: {x 0}                            / head
    t: {x 1}                            / tail
    n: {h y t/x}                        / nth
    p: h'-1_(~^:)t\                     / print
    r: {{$[^y;x;c[h y;x]o t y]}[0N;x]}  / reverse

And it was not, by the way, invented by Ursula K Leguin. I checked.

You sir are a gentleman. Good job!

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