Re: common lisp, the untold story

Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> writes:

``The correct way to explain a complex thing is to break it into parts
and then explain each part;

...

-- Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts, 1987.

|To my taste the main characteristic of intelligent thinking
|is that one is willing and able to study in depth an aspect
|of one's subject matter in isolation, for the sake of its own
|consistency, all the time knowing that one is occupying with
|only one of the aspects.
E. W. DIJKSTRA

|The key to understanding complicated things is to know what
|not to look at and what not compute and what not to think.
GERALD JAY SUSSMAN