Essays from the funniest man in Microsoft Research
<i>> You can't just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis.</i><p>1. Loudly declare that theory is useless.<p>2. Ignore any tool that is not "serious" -- i.e. so larded with other people's complexity that all theory is useless.<p>3. Justify (2) by claiming that "ordinary" programmers are too stupid: only the brilliant can understand a tool so simple that theory is not useless.<p>4. Pension!