Quote #210
Dykstra once pointed out the *real* problem with lisp:
It's too tempting to fiddle interactively until you've made a bad design
work in an ugly way, rather than use your brain.
Dykstra once pointed out the *real* problem with lisp:
It's too tempting to fiddle interactively until you've made a bad design
work in an ugly way, rather than use your brain.
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1. [common; generalization of
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nobody's good enough for me.
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yourself,
but to stand at your real height against some higher... - Wyszkowski's Second Law:
Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it...
