“LISP has been jokingly described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer."”

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

I think that description a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.
1970s, The Humble Programmer (1972)

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Dutch computer scientist 1930–2002

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