On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:53 AM Gian Uberto Lauri <sa...@eng.it> wrote:

> .....Yet Lisp gave me something useful on my work, and that is not
> just being used to functional programming, but also being ready to
> accept that "Ok, guys, here is a place where you have to start
> thinking _very_ differently from where you were used to"; and
> understanding why elegance is so good in coding: a piece of elegant
> code is a piece of code that you actually "feel" is good code, its
> correctness being almos blatant :).
>

In other words, lisp and prolog (and clojure and guile and scheme....) give
the "feeling" that "elegant code" can be the best software representation
"in coding". Why? Because "the correctness is almost blatant", as stated.
In other words, semantics collapses to syntax. As in mathematics.

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