> It does help that wc is such a useless and trivial program that it doesn't rightly benefit from such interfaces only exposed to C which languages such as Comm

> It does help that wc is such a useless and trivial program that it doesn't rightly benefit from such interfaces only exposed to C which languages such as Common Lisp avoid out of good taste and a sense of proper design > Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. --Verity Stob I am at this point entirely unsure if the author is knowingly self-deprecating or unknowingly proving Ms Stob correct.