Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 10-May-2001 Courageous wrote:
 >  There's an old joke amongst acamicians which says "any
 >  discipline which has the word science in it isn't." This is somewhat
 >  amusing with regards to computer science, in which most of the
 >  "science" is mathematics. :-)

I've also heard:

The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in
practice.

and-I'm-a-scientist-ly y'rs

/Mikael

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