“The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.”

—  Erik Naggum

Re: Lisp as glue language? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/711dfe3ce115d552 (Usenet article).
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Norwegian computer programmer 1965–2009

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