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> But of course, baby duck syndrome will prevail and Minsky's comments are painfully true to this day: "Anyone can learn it [Lisp syntax] in a day, unless they
by wiseowise 4y ago
> But of course, baby duck syndrome will prevail and Minsky's comments are painfully true to this day: "Anyone can learn it [Lisp syntax] in a day, unless they know Fortran, in which case it's three days."
That’s hilarious, where did he say that?
- Jtsummers 4y agoI'm only finding the quote, no source. But here's something we can be sure he said: > The complete syntax of LISP can be learned in an hour or so; the interpreter is compact and not exceedingly complicated, and students often can answer questions about the system by reading the interpreter program itself. https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TuringLecture/TuringLecture.html https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TuringLecture/Turin...