关于lisp

John Maccarthy,智者已逝，膜拜。

让我们浏览一下对 lisp的赞誉：

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." - Alan Perlis

如果不能改变你对于编程的思考方式，那对这种编程语言，不学也罢。

"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." - Eric Raymond, "How to Become a Hacker"
如果你学了Lisp，你将获得一种深度体验，在你之后的编程生涯中，这种体验将使你更好的去编程，即便你并不是使用Lisp本身。

"Like DNA, such a language [Lisp] does not go out of style." - Paul Graham, ANSI Common Lisp

就像DNA一样，这样一种语言从不会过时。

"The problem with Lisp is that it makes you so damned smug." - Jesse Bowman

使用 lisp而产生的一个问题是：你会偷着乐（这样貌似不好吧）。

"...only the creatively intelligent can prosper in the Lisp world." - Richard Gabriel

在Lisp的世界里，唯有智者才能纵横捭阖。

"If someone asks me who I am, and if I'm among ordinary people, I tell them I'm a computer hacker. If I'm among computer people I tell them I'm a Unix hacker. If I'm among Unix people I tell them I'm a Linux hacker. And if I'm among Linux people I tell them I'm a Lisp hacker." - James Crippen
处于平庸的人群，如果有人问我，你是谁，我会告诉他，我是一位计算机黑客；

如果周围都是玩电脑的，我会说，我是一位UNIX黑客；

如果大家都是玩UNIX的，我会说，我是玩LINUX的；

如果大家也玩LINUX,我会说，我是玩LISP的。。（你行不？）

"Lisp is the red pill." - John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

Lisp就像一种红色的小药丸(你懂的)。

"Lisp is so great ... because it is simply the most powerful language available. And the reason everyone doesn't use it is that programming languages are not merely technologies, but habits of mind as well, and nothing changes slower." - Paul Graham

Lisp是如此NB,似乎是可以获取的最强大的编程语言。至于为什么大家都不使用她，想必是编程语言不仅仅是一种技术，还是一种思维方式。。

"Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." - Phil Greenspun

"...the greatest single programming language ever designed." - Alan Kay (about Lisp)

不仅仅是最强大的，还是唯一的。。

"Lisp is a programmable programming language." - John Foderaro

可编程的编程语言。。

"Will write code that writes code that writes code that writes code for money." - on comp.lang.lisp

你信吗

"Because Lisp gives you the freedom to define your own operators, you can mold it into just the language you need. If you're writing a text-editor, you can turn Lisp into a language for writing text-editors. If you're writing a CAD program, you can turn Lisp into a language for writing CAD programs. And if you're not sure yet what kind of program you're writing, it's a safe bet to write it in Lisp. Whatever kind of program yours turns out to be, Lisp will, during the writing of it, have evolved into a language for writing that kind of program." - Paul Graham, On Lisp

"Lisp is an especially good language for writing extensible programs because it is itself an extensible program." - Paul Graham, On Lisp

"Lisp is a language for doing what you've been told is impossible." - Kent Pitman

"Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages." - Eric Raymond, Open Sources

"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list." - Kent Pitman

还等什么列

现在就开始。。

《COMMON LISP:A Gentle Introductionto Symbolic Computation》

《pratical common lisp》有中文版了

《On lisp》

然后看到，怎么全是括弧，操作符还在前面，没错，这就是lisp威力所在！