Condescension Quote by Verity Stob Download Open image “Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.” — Verity Stob ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Condescension Condescension and Keys Lisp Recursion Stills Technique
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.” — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics. — L Peter Deutsch Copy Share Image
LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is.… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face… — Verity Stob 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 condescension. It… — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of… — Verity Stob Copy Share Image
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do… — Josephine Lawrence Copy Share Image
As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
