The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell
Let me try to get this straight: Lisp is a language for describing algorithms. This was JohnMcCarthy's original purpose, anyway: to build something more convenient than a Turing machine. Lisp is not about file, socket or GUI programming - Lisp is about expressive power. (For example, you can design multiple object systems for Lisp, in Lisp. Or implement the now-fashionable AOP. Or do arbitrary transformations on parsed source code.) If you don't value expressive power, Lisp ain't for you. I, personally, would prefer Lisp to not become mainstream: this would necessarily involve a dumbing down. -- VladimirSlepnev
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei
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
You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey