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People Are Very Flexible And Learn To Adjust To Strange Surroundings -- They Can Become Accustomed To Read Lisp And Fortran Programs, For Example.
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People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange
surroundings -- they can become accustomed to read Lisp and
Fortran programs, for example.
-- Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro, Art of Prolog, MIT Press
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LISP: [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n.
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page out: [MIT] vi. 1. To become unaware of one's surroundings temporarily, due to daydreaming or preoccupation.
Can you repeat that? I paged out for a minute....
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Prolog-programmers say: "How can I do it in reasonable time ?...