Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes:
> Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>:
>> If Forth had come out of a computer science department and Lisp had
>> been invented by an astronomer, Lisp would still be the easier
>> language to use.
>
> It is quite astounding how Lisp is steadily being reinvented by the
> down-to-earth programming community.
"With a few very basic principles at its foundation, it [LISP] has
shown a remarkable stability. Besides that, LISP has been the
carrier for a considerable number of in a sense our most
sophisticated computer applications. LISP has jokingly been
described as “the most intelligent way to misuse a computer”. I
think that description a great compliment because it transmits the
full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most
gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible
thoughts." -- E. W. Dijkstra, 1972 Turing Award lecture
Greenspun's tenth rule of programming is an aphorism in computer
programming and especially programming language circles that
states:
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad
hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of
half of Common Lisp".
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
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