Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than… — Andrew Plotkin Copy Share Image
This does not mean that I fail to recognise that Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and… — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
“I put an apple on my table. Then I put myself inside this apple. What tranquility!” — Henri Michaux Copy Share Image
“4.19. Dedekind's approach is a singular combination of Descartes' Cogito and the idea of the idea in Spinoza. The starting point is… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now… — Mark Jason Dominus Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
