"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute"
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
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<pclass="quote-author">- Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition</p>
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<pclass="quote-author">- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"the greatest single programming language ever designed"</p>
<pclass="quote-text">"One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Alan Kay, on Lisp</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented"</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach</p>
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<pclass="quote-author">- Alan Kay</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Alan Kay</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."</p>
<pclass="quote-text">"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Philip Greenspun</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming)</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"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."</p>
<pclass="quote-text">"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."</p>
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<pclass="quote-author">- Martin Rodgers</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Martin Rodgers</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"Common Lisp, a happy amalgam of the features of previous Lisps"</p>
<pclass="quote-text">"Common Lisp, a happy amalgam of the features of previous Lisps."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Winston & Horn, Lisp</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Winston & Horn, Lisp</p>
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<pclass="quote-author">- Christian Lynbech, Road to Lisp</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Christian Lynbech, Road to Lisp</p>
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<pclass="quote-text">"it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts."</p>
<pclass="quote-text">"[Lisp] has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts."</p>
<pclass="quote-author">- Edsger Dijkstra, on Lisp (CACM, 15:10)</p>