“Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.”
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“… greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)”
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Jean-François Revel (1924–2006) French writer and philosopher
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