Re: [C&C] Re: [tlug] OT: interesting NY times article:High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> David J Iannucci writes:
>
>  > Much as I love Perl, I must admit that the concise beauty of the way
>  > Ruby applies the string transformation without the side-effect takes
>  > the cake :-)
>
> Hm?  Perl uses the editable buffer model, Ruby has immutable strings,
> Emacs provides both.  Dif'rent strokes.
>
> All three versions are obnoxious programs, however, being "holier than
> thou".  As Edward (almost) points out, the correct design is
>
> (mapc (lambda (x)
>         (mapc (lambda (y)
>                 (format "%s should learn to better understand %s\n" x y))
>               nationalities)
>         nationalities))
>   

For a non lisp programmer could you explain how this works.  I would 
have thought this would start with "Americans should learn to better 
understand Americans"?

Edward