02-20-2019, 12:29 AM
Yes, the list of Lisp breakthroughs goes on and on.
And yet: Lisp is so simple and obvious that people don't need to search the Internet to learn/use it.
(unlike some other languages for which people are constantly looking for answers)
Beyond Greenspun's tenth rule, we also note:
"every sufficiently advanced programming language re-invents a subset of Lisp"
When *that* language is then "complete", noobs declare that it is "too complicated"
So somebody invents a small, simple, easy to use, interpreter that makes *some* problem simple to program..
[it just needs a few more feature to be more widely useful... evolve and repeat]
That being said, is there a function in GIMP to compute the 'distance' between two colors?
And yet: Lisp is so simple and obvious that people don't need to search the Internet to learn/use it.
(unlike some other languages for which people are constantly looking for answers)
Beyond Greenspun's tenth rule, we also note:
"every sufficiently advanced programming language re-invents a subset of Lisp"
When *that* language is then "complete", noobs declare that it is "too complicated"
So somebody invents a small, simple, easy to use, interpreter that makes *some* problem simple to program..
[it just needs a few more feature to be more widely useful... evolve and repeat]
That being said, is there a function in GIMP to compute the 'distance' between two colors?