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• A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. -- Alan Perli
• A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
• LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue
  a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• LISP: [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n.
  AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN.
  -- Alan J. Perli...
• Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
  -- Alan J. Perli...