(cons cat (cons cat nil))
Funargs
try to determine what exactly you gain for the effort of changing a well-established syntax. If it doesn’t actually let anyone do anything new, it’s likely to meet quite a bit of resistance.
Being enlightened gentlemen
we split all programming languages into two groups, sucks and doesn’t-suck and put all of them into the first group.
"Kings, presidents and voting"
The problem is assigning the correct degree of fear to distant elephants.
David Clark, A Cloudy Crystal Ball – Visions of the Future, IETF 24, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992
Journals
we wonder why doctors have a hard time understanding CRUD-based systems, when their natural mental model is the appending of facts.
Greg Young, CQRS and Event Sourcing, Code on the Beach 2014, Atlanta Beach, Florida
Quantity
If we look back thirty eight years from 1977 to 1939, there were numerous great films that year, but notably Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz
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