Guy Steele quotes
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“A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama”
-- Guy SteeleSource : Guy Steele (1990). “Common LISP: The Language”, p.406, Elsevier
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“If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases”
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“We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.”
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“The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.”
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“Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state.”
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“There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And one would hope that there will be something about the program, whether it's block comments at the start of each routine or an overview document that comes separately or just choices of variable names that will somehow convey those stories to you.”
-- Guy Steele
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Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009.
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“Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.”
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Source : "Have Gun, Will Travel" By Margot Hornblower, www.cnn.com. July 6, 1998.
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