Comment by _19qg
2 years ago
"Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days." — Marvin Minsky
2 years ago
"Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days." — Marvin Minsky
The irony there is that someone first had to learn enough Fortran to invent the FLPL (Fortran List Processing Language) system that went on to inspire the impelmentation techniques and terminology of Lisp.