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
Ce n'est que par les relations qu'on entretient entre nos différentes connaissances qu'elles nous restent accessibles. -- Shnuup, sur l'hypertexte (SELFHTML -> Introduction -> Definitions sur l'hypertexte)
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown
A non negative binary integer value x is a power of 2 iff (x & (x-1)) is 0 using 2's complement arithmetic. -- [fact]
Ne te mets pas de limite, la vie se chargera de la mettre a ta place. -- Darryl AMEDON
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki
Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis