My real name in lights! (Or at least cathode rays.)

[thewhitelily]

I'm faaaaaamous!

Now, if only the words for my story were coming as easily as the plot.

Comments

[lustforlike.livejournal.com]

If you're in a position to view the universe from a distance you probably don't have to worry much about a mere stack overflow. There's always the possibility that the universe is written in lisp and so does not have a stack, too.

[thewhitelily]

Ah, lazy evaluation saves the day. But I thought they hacked most of it together using Perl?

[lustforlike.livejournal.com]

Totally the comic I was thinking of! :) Although, I think that explains most of the problems in the world today.

[thewhitelily]

:D The lazy evaluation, or using regular expressions to define the course of the future?

[lustforlike.livejournal.com]

The regular expressions - they always seem like a good idea to begin with, and it's only when you're halfway through trying to write a regular expression to replace the period halfway through your novel with a comma that you realise the delete key might have been a more effective solution.

[thewhitelily]

Except that you can count that regular expression in your NaNoWriMo word count, whereas the Delete Key Is Always Bad. *nods*

[lustforlike.livejournal.com]

...

*runs off to add a regular expression to his novel*