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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020) by wtetzner on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:29PM (#32632240)
Who calls Lisp a "write only language" other than people who don't know Lisp?
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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020) by lispm on Sunday August 28, 2022 @06:07PM (#32632550)
There is the classic Minsky quote:

“Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.”

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