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I think you're getting Lispers confused with Perl hackers. The Lisp macro for that would be long and aggressively hyphenated.

In Cobol, of course, "All is suffering" is just implied, and doesn't require any extra characters to state.

how would you state it in this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_%28programming_language%29

I presume it would be an awesome painting/shirt ;p

It'd be one black pixel.

In Lisp, it'd be an empty cons cell.

In C, it'd be the null pointer.

In Java, it'd be a XxxFactoryFactoryFactory.

U+221E

If someone could translate this for us non-lispers that would be awesome. That way, we could understand the sheer awesomeness that probably accompanies the parent poster.

>> "\u221e" => "∞"

Unicode!

A lot of downvotes without any explanation. Although, at this point it's already recovering.

Assuming the commentor hadn't seen unicode notation, how could they know it wasn't related to lisp?

I always preferred 'nothing endures but change', though it's admittedly longer.