Paul Graham on Graphic Objects

[jkush]

http://www.ddj.com/199204122

[pg]

How weird. I didn't recognize this, but it sounded like me. Did I write something for Dr. Dobbs and then forget about it? Then I noticed the date. This is from 1988.

Uh oh, just noticed they didn't preserve indentation in the code. That makes it effectively unreadable.

[BrandonM → pg]

So basically, someone who knows very little about Lisp just slapped your code on their website?

I also noticed that the date now reads "May 10, 2007," which looks to me like sometime in the future :/.

[jkush → BrandonM]

No - DDJ reprinted an article they originally published in 1988. The article was written by Paul Graham. The digital version lost the code indentation which makes it a lot less readable.

[BrandonM → jkush]

Ahh, that's more forgivable then. I'm still not sure what's up with that date, though.

[ced → BrandonM]

Read the italized subtext below the title.

I also got caught by the May 2007 date at first. It might be intentionally misleading.

[BrandonM → ced]

Right, I saw that, but I read the article (thanks to jkush's submission) on the 8th, and the article's date is May 10. Anyways, it's not important, just a pointless observation.

[brlewis → BrandonM]

I would guess it's the date that will be printed on newsstand issues. I noticed some time ago that a lot of magazines post-date themselves, presumably because people are less likely to buy a magazine that's dated a week ago.

[ralph → pg]

If you "print" the article they use a fixed width font and the indentation looks better. Helps to turn off the style sheet too.