What it takes to import a car into Belgium: persistence and an elephant's hide.
“Any sufficiently advanced system for concurrent programming
contains an ad-hoc partial implementation of dataflow variables.”
— Van Roy's variation on Greenspun's Tenth Law
(see CTM).
“Any sufficiently hacked Lisp system
contains an ad-hoc partial implementation of almost any concept.”
— Inverse form of Greenspun's Tenth Law
(see CTM).
“What is a European? Someone with the industriousness of the Spanish,
the sobriety of the Irish, the palate of the English, the sense of
humor of the Germans, the generosity of the Dutch, the modesty of the
French and the courage of the Italians. In other words, a Belgian.”
“A Lisp programmer knows the value of everything but the cost of nothing.”
“A Prolog programmer knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing.”
(Explanation:
Prolog has a simple operational model, so a program's execution cost is
easily calculated. However, Prolog has logic variables.
A logic variable always represents a fixed value,
but the value is unknown before the variable is bound.)
“La méthode de Newton pour trouver les racines.”
“La méthode de Quasi-Newton, progéniture illégitime
de Quasimodo et Newton.”
— Antoon Pardon Quote 2:
— Alan J. Perlis
— Van Roy's variation on Perlis's Law of Lisp.
Semiquote 3:
The
Mercedes "A" Class -- A Class A Car
The
chief's favorite dinner
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