“Like so many other things in life, you rarely get only what you optimize for.”

— Erik Naggum

Re: Programming Style http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/e3e24a5e282e8b4d (Usenet article).
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Norwegian computer programmer 1965–2009

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