Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
This does not mean that I fail to recognise that Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. It just means that I have no idea how, or indeed if, Lisp handles exceptions.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases
[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.
Common Lisp is politics, not art.
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.
I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.
Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.
You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.
There's nothing wrong with a lisp.
I lisp. My eyes disappear when I smile. My voice is funny. I don't sing like Judy Garland. I don't dance like Cyd Charisse. But women identify with me. And while men desire Cyd Charisse, they'd take me home to meet Mom.
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.
