If you want to
If you want to know why Lisp doesn’t win around you, find a mirror. Erik Naggum
Lisp
That’s why the smartest
That’s why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast. Erik Naggum
Lisp was far more
Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS’s hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom’s favorite … Read more
Lisp is worth learning
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. Eric S. Raymond
LISP has jokingly been
LISP has jokingly been described as \”the most intelligent way to misuse a computer.\” I think that description is 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. Edsger Dijkstra
One of the most
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for “List Processing”), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented. Douglas Hofstadter
Lisp doesn’t look any
Lisp doesn’t look any deader than usual to me. David Thornley
A novice was trying
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong. Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. Danny Hillis
Imprisoned in every fat
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out. Cyril Connolly
When the hounds of
When the hounds of Spring are on winter’s traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain. Algernon Charles Swinburne