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Lisp - The Ducati Of Programming Languages

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Introduction

One of the early summer evenings of 2003 I was sitting with a group of friends on a terrace of a lively New York City cafe. The wretched east coast humidity didn't yet settle in and we were enjoying a pleasant warm breeze while watching the flickering lights of cars pass by across the street. The guy sitting next to me was someone I haven't met before - a friend of a friend who happened to join us that evening. He was wearing a motorcycle jacket and had a helmet resting on his lap. Breaking the ice, I asked the first question that came to mind: "So what's it like to ride a bike?" I was genuinely interested but didn't expect to hear anything new. I would be unable to convey to someone the feeling of driving a car so how could I expect him to convey the feeling of riding a bike? A single experience would be worth a thousand words. His answer surprised me.

The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer

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One of hackerdom's great heroic epics, free verse or no. In a few spare images it captures more about the esthetics and psychology of hacking than all the volumes on the subject put together.

Posted to Usenet by its author, Ed Nather, on May 21, 1983.

S-expressions: The most powerful data structure available

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Which is the most powerful data structure?

S-expressions are the most powerful data structure currently available, suitable for representing arbitrary complex data structures, and that basically means absolutely any kind of information.

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