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Lisp - A thinking man's language

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-30 19:28

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
— Philip Greenspun, March 2007[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)#Quotations

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-31 15:27

>>1
Of course, if the length of the program is the same, you'll finish earlier with a language where you think less and type more.
Someone should tell him.

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