Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.

— Erik Naggum, Re: new to lisp (3rd time lucky)

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/ef9b57ecc5555931

From a Usenet article.

Topics: complexity