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Don't take anything Dijkstra says personally. I don't think he's ever said anything positive about any language, except perhaps Lisp, and even then it was just
by cobrausn 14y ago
Don't take anything Dijkstra says personally. I don't think he's ever said anything positive about any language, except perhaps Lisp, and even then it was just a 'this isn't horrible' more than a positive.
Wish I could find that quote.
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Found it - http://kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-dijkstra-blogged-about-lisp.html http://kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-dijkstra-bl...
- JackC 14y agoMy favorite, from your link: "[I]t has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts."