Recursive Sexps Gone Wrong

UGH MOMMY THOSE sexps are recursively evaluating and modifying each other DON'T LOOK AT THEM, RICKY. I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE INFLUENCED BY... impure strict unsafe... OH GOD NO RICKYYY self defvar replace read-byte demacro format IT IS TOO LATE, MOTHER I HAVE SEEN EVERYTHING

A mother and child encounter Lisp-related concepts personified as disturbing figures, with the child Ricky witnessing recursive sexps evaluating and modifying each other. The joke uses functional-programming terminology—sexps, recursion, impure, strict, unsafe, Lisp, and Haskell—as if it were forbidden adult content, escalating into mock horror when Ricky has seen everything. EN: A mother and child encounter Lisp-related concepts personified as disturbing figures, with the child Ricky witnessing recursive sexps evaluating and modifying each other. The joke uses functional-programming terminology—sexps, recursion, impure, strict, unsafe, Lisp, and Haskell—as if it were forbidden adult content, escalating into mock horror when Ricky has seen everything.

• @profunctor_io / 4876 2020-07-04