[osteele]

> Aikido is that fantasy martial arts. The kind that only works when the opponents are in on the ruse.

Similarly Lisp only works when used with a cooperative compiler. And jazz is most effective when played with fellow jazz musicians, and/or for an audience that appreciates jazz.

Your claim, if true, would only strengthen the analogy.

> Blockchain is like the Aikido of technology.

This is the owl of analogies.

[keithnz]

I don't think comparing it to lisp is meaningful. But if you were going to compare, it's not if it had a cooperative compiler, it would be as if it had a cooperative problem. A problem that was super simple, that caused no errors or exception cases, or complicated special cases. Didn't have to be solved real time.