On: Robpike/Lisp: Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter in Go

[dchest]

...using Lisp's parentheses as a bow.

(Hint: look up 1980 Olympics)

[newswasboring → dchest]

I hated you for doing this and myself more for actually falling down that rabbit hole. The explanation is here[1].

tldr: he is canadian and 1980 summer Olympics was boycotted by both canada and america.

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?RobPike

[kazinator → newswasboring]

My only memory is of the closing ceremony: a fleeting image of a bear mascot being carried across the stadium by balloons. I watched that on TV as a nine-year-old boy in Slovakia..