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Re: sizeof



At 10:04 PM 94.01.10 +0000, Jim Meehan wrote:
>In article <9401101823.AA21358@uu2.psi.com> e@flavors.com (Doug Currie,
>Flavors Technology, Inc.) writes:
>
>   This reminds me... I've heard it said that
>    "LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."
>
>   Anybody know the origin of this statement?
>
>I believe this is by the late Alan Perlis, who was the first Turing
>Award winner, a wonderful teacher, and an endless supply of such
>quips.

This rings a bell; I recall N. Wirth repeating the quip in an acm lecture
and adding that Pascal programmers know the "wirth" of everything.

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