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Re: append, push, and add-to-list.


From: tomas
Subject: Re: append, push, and add-to-list.
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 17:41:21 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 04:53:44PM +0200, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the 
GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

[...]

> But ... ultimately one writes code so the computer can execute
> it, and not so that a human can read it. So maybe one
> shouldn't quote empty lists?

There's at least one wise person who put that exactly the other
way around:

  "Programming is the art of telling another human being
   what one wants the computer to do"

   -- D.E.Knuth [1]

Cheers

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/4/147340-reading-cs-classics/fulltext

 - t

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