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• Real programmers don't program in LISP. Any language with more parenthesis than actual code is for airheaded wienies who can't write real programs.
• Within a computer, natural language is unnatural.
• LISP programmers do it without unexpected side effects.
• LISP is a recursive language--first you curse, then you recurse.
• APL is a natural extension of assembler language programming
  ...and is best for educational purposes. -- A. Perli...
• open n. Abbreviation for `open (or left) parenthesis' -- used when necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity.
  To read aloud the LISP form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say...
• open: n. Abbreviation for `open (or left) parenthesis' --- used when necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity.
  To read aloud the LISP form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say...
• APL is a natural extension of assembler language programming
  ...and is best for educational purposes. -- Alan J. Perli...