Background Image
Lisp Has Jokingly Been Described As "the Most Intelligent Way To Misuse A Computer." I Think That Description Is A Great Compliment Because It Transmits The Full Flavour Of Liberation: It Has Assisted A Number Of Our Most Gifted Fellow Humans In Thinking Previously Impossible Thoughts.
-Edsger Dijkstra
Please Wait....
Translating....

Lisp Has Jokingly Been Described As "the

Edsger Dijkstra
Lisp Has Jokingly Been Described As "the Most Intelligent Way To Misuse A Computer." I Think That Description Is A Great Compliment Because It Transmits The Full Flavour Of Liberation: It Has Assisted A Number Of Our Most Gifted Fellow Humans In Thinking Previously Impossible Thoughts.
Views: 12
Topic
Intelligent
Thinking
Numbers
More From Edsger Dijkstra
When Building Sand Castles On The Beach, We Can Ignore The Waves But Should Watch The Tide.
Beach
Castles
Watches
It Is Practically Impossible To Teach Good Programming To Students That Have Had A Prior Exposure To Basic: As Potential Programmers They Are Mentally Mutilated Beyond Hope Of Regeneration.
Students
Impossible
Programming
Computer Science Is No More About Computers Than Astronomy Is About Telescopes, Biology Is About Microscopes Or Chemistry Is About Beakers And Test Tubes. Science Is Not About Tools. It Is About How We Use Them, And What We Find Out When We Do.
Tools
Use
Telescopes
In Passing I Draw Attention To Another English Expression Which Often Occurs In Dutch Texts: "the Real World". In Dutch - And I Am Afraid Not In Dutch Alone - Its Usage Is Almost Always A Symptom Of A Violent Anti-intellectualism.
Real
Expression
Attention
Programming In Basic Causes Brain Damage.
Brain
Damage
Causes
Trending Author
Tom Hardy
Mahmoud Darwish
Georges Bernanos
Peter Abelard
Andrea Corr
Gabrielle Roy
Category
Information