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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.

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.

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!

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