Kaushik Sridharan writes:
The modern world progresses by an increase in the things that are
successfully done ineptly.
How old is this idea?
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by
eminent people when they are making speeches, that
Dave Long writes:
To my tastes, Lisply written Fortran is no better than Fortranly
written Lisp)
Lispy Fortran is probably good if you have to write an optimizing
compiler or a regular expression engine in Fortran, and Fortranny Lisp
is probably good if you're writing an FFT engine. Lisp is
