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Quote #215 It's Truly A Shame That Knuth Never Really Got Into Lisp.
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It's truly a shame that Knuth never really got into Lisp. His books would be
_more_ readable, and TeX might actually have been a decent language.
-- -- Henry Baker
Related:
TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....
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....
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You are old," said the youth, "and your programs don't run, And there isn't one language you like
Yet of useful suggestions for help you have none -- Have you thought about taking a hike?...