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• 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 lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• LISP: [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n.
  AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Quote #314 Question. Whch country has the greatest number of English speakers?
  Answer. China. Fact. More people in the world can speak english than any other language....
• Graduate students and most professors are no smarter than undergrads. They're just older.
• I'm confused - more than usual, that is.
• NIL: /nil/ No. Used in reply to a question, particularly one asked using the `-P' convention.
  Most hackers assume this derives simply from LISP terminology for `false' (see also {T}), but NIL as a negative reply was well-established among radio hams decades before the advent of LISP....
• NIL /nil/ No. Used in reply to a question, particularly one asked using the `-P' convention.
  Most hackers assume this derives simply from LISP terminology for `false' (see also T), but NIL as a negative reply was well-established among radio hams decades before the advent of LISP....
• Reality will be less painful than usual today.