[magikarp]

A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the Lisp program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses.

[kps]

  > Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses.

Fortunately? Now that they know it's LISP, they can just attack during GC.

(I know what you're going to say… but the parent joke predates incremental garbage collection.)

[pavelludiq]

actually, it was javascript and the file contained:

              }
          });
      };
  }());

[cema]

Well, people do say Javascript is a Lisp in C clothes, and for a good reason. Well, for a bad reason too, as in this case.

[DigitalJack]

The joke would be a little better if you didn't explicitly as it was a lisp. Gotta leave a moment of epiphany for the listener.

[maggit]

I can't make up my mind about which of the following is better:

> A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses.

or

> A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was Lisp.

[elwell]

I don't know what's scarier: the code being stolen or a >150MB Lisp program governing US missiles.