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I would bet that He writes Lisp. Ultimately everything is the same. Particles. Above it: particles made of particles.

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God wrote in Lisp, Bob Kanefsky performed by Julia Ecklar. My favorite song.

https://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/eternalflame.mp3

Refrain (full lyrics): http://www.songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/EternalFlame....

For God wrote in Lisp code

When he filled the leaves with green.

The fractal flowers and recursive roots:

The most lovely hack I’ve seen.

And when I ponder snowflakes, never finding two the same,

I know God likes a language with its own four-letter name.

JSON is a 4 letter name too! Could replace LISP with it.

An article that shows almost exactly that: https://stopa.io/post/265

JSON isn't a programming language

That isn't true obviously. It's like saying lists aren't a programming language.

It isn’t in itself. Neither is any AST. A programming language is the semantic rules that can execute it.

Until it is.

From the guy who created JSON:

>JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format.

From Wikipedia:

>JSON is an open standard file format and data interchange format

Now tell me how JSON is a programming language.

I might be thinking of JSOLN. Let's talk about that instead.

hahaha this is incredible

> now some folks on the internet put their faith in C++

Thanks for sharing!

I only clicked on the comments to find out if anyone had posted this. It is also a favorite of mine and I don't even really write in Lisp! Though it has actually inspired me to start using emacs and fiddle with elisp and CL a bit.

The next ground-breaking achievement in quantum physics will be the discovery of the two smallest particles everything derives from: a left paren and a right paren.

That's only used in the Old Testament.

Hell, Genesis was written in assembly for the 8008 in only 520 bits but it took a damn sandpile of support chips to bootstrap.

God uses Elixir with Rustler now because of concurrency and lazy evaluation gotchas of Haskell. (STM didn't cut it.)

Meanwhile, the devil imposes a standard of FORTRAN77 and COBOL62 with a spaghetti mess of uncommented code containing GOTOs, "god" functions, and meaningless identifiers.

https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html

And the angels write in C

Relevant : https://xkcd.com/224/

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