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• Important: as of next tuesday Common-Lisp will use square brackets instead of parentheses.
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• Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons! -- THE SIMPSONS
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• Lisp programmers do it between the parentheses.
• Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
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• Never break your putter and driver in the same match or you're dead. -- Tommy Bol
• When the government bureau's remedies do not match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy.
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