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"Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days." — Marvin Minsky
by _19qg 3y ago
"Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days." — Marvin Minsky
- kazinator 3y agoThe 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.