Rediscovering Dr. Dijkstra and Giving LISP a Second Chance

It’s strange and interesting how I got to this point…Some months ago I got a job referral from a friend. Someone needed a developer for an internet search engine they were working on, and they were looking for someone who knew Lisp, among other things…A month ago Paul Murphy, a blogger at ZDNet, posted an article about Dr. Edsgar Dijkstra and how he had criticized APL. [I] got curious, “What was Dijkstra’s favorite programming language?” I did a Google search and found out he didn’t have one. He didn’t even have a computer at home!…Along the way though I found several blog entries criticizing Java, but all had something nice to say about Lisp.

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Hello

I've brought over a couple prior posts from a homemade blog I attempted to create a couple years ago (unsuccessfully). I didn't get around to automating it, so I finally decided to bring it here. Maybe this will get me to write more often.
Feel free to comment on them.

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