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May 25, 2002
Revenge of the Nerds: why use lisp
Paul Graham's Revenge of the Nerds is the best explanation I've ever read of why computer programmers who use the Lisp language seem so snobby about it: The short explanation of why this 1950s language is not obsolete is that it was not technology but math, and math doesn't get stale. [Paul Boutin]