C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

— Erik Naggum, Re: teaching and learning with LISP/Scheme

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/1c0fd1ffdb5d1b8b

From a Usenet article.

Topics: programming