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lucrtz
·5 anni fa·discuss
Malbolge is most definitely not a lisp dialect.
lucrtz
·5 anni fa·discuss
Yes and as many other people have said in this thread, that's why impossible is between quotes.

After all if it were truly impossible do you think someone could have written anything in it?
lucrtz
·5 anni fa·discuss
Also of course this was not written entirely by hand, but with a toolchain as the author says somewhere else, it's not exactly feasible to write this by hand.
lucrtz
·5 anni fa·discuss
what do you mean? it's a lisp interpreter, not a transpiler.
lucrtz
·5 anni fa·discuss
Being a github project one could argue the title of the post should have been the repository description, which is too long for HN's limit, unless you expect people to change their repository descriptions just so they fit on hacker news i think it's fair to "editorialize" the title.
lucrtz
·5 anni fa·discuss
Since you referred to the HN rules, i think your comments itself could fall under:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. [...]"

(you could have phrased this like "i'd have preferred if the author didn't use clickbaity terms and instead used (...)")

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

(you interpreted the "impossible" as something done for attention grabbing, while it's quite clearly simply a shorter and more interesting way to say very difficult)

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."