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Comment by carapace

7 years ago

I'm not a Lisp programmer, and I probably never will be, but I respect the language and here's why:

As Alan Kay said, Lisp is the "Maxwell’s equations of software" https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

> These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!” This is the whole world of programming in a few lines that I can put my hand over.

It's elegant.

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