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- Alan Kay
"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 Lisp."
- Philip Greenspun
- Robert Morris
- Matz, LL2
- L. Peter Deutsch
- Olin Shivers
- Cyril Connolly
- Scott Fahlman
"Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other
language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than
most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp
freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways.
It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one
of hackerdom's favorite languages."
- Peter Landin
- Mike Vanier
- Philip Greenspun
- Dave Moon
"I have heard more than one LISP advocate state such
subjective comments as, "LISP is the most powerful and
elegant programming language in the world" and expect
such comments to be taken as objective truth. I have
never heard a Java, C++, C, Perl, or Python advocate
make the same claim about their own language of
choice."
– Alan Kay