Quote #215
It's truly a shame that Knuth never really got into Lisp. His books would be
_more_ readable, and TeX might actually have been a decent language.
-- -- Henry Baker
It's truly a shame that Knuth never really got into Lisp. His books would be
_more_ readable, and TeX might actually have been a decent language.
-- -- Henry Baker
Related:
- TeX /tekh/ n.
An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by
Donald E.
Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community... - LISP n.
[from `LISt Processing language', but mythically
from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother
tongue,
a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length... - Your quote might have
been here... - TeX is Great and Knuth is its
Prophet... - Quote #576
Read my paper and weep.
--
Henry... - Quote #22
``Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data
structure to another.
Their introduction into high-level languages has been... - You are old, said the youth, and your programs don't run,
And there isn't one language you like; Yet of useful... - You are old," said the youth, "and your programs don't run,
And there isn't one language you like; Yet of useful...
From the same category:
- Quote #212
"This sort of reasoning is the long-delayed revenge of people who could not
go to Woodstock because they had too much trig homework."
-
Stewart A. Baker, Chief Counsel for the... - Quote #655
Object-oriented programming is popular in big companies,
because it suits the way they write software. At... - Quote #228
Several recent languages have adopted an Intercal-like,
asychronous computed COME-FROM concept. Only they... - Quote #268
(Markus, are you *sure* you are not a crypto-conceptualist ready to burst
out of the closet?
) -- Mike Arnautov... - Quote #696
The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard,
and it does not solve the problem well. -- Phil...
