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Alan Perlis - Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
by wtetzner 3y ago
Alan Perlis - Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
- kazinator 3y agoTIL! Perlis was got that from Wilde? That makes it even cooler. He was pondering over the Wilde quote and realized that it can be reframed to apply to Lisp. Plus, it makes Lisp programmers the opposite of cynics, in a way. If you only care about the cost of every computation, but not its value, then you're a kind of code cynic.