I don't know if you've experienced not working without having to worry about money, but I have and it has a unique feeling of emptiness to it.

This is not me praising 9-5 office jobs, or work from home jobs, or any other specific job. They can all be hell in and of themselves, but the idea of abolishing work is just so laughable to me.

The moment that happens, a collective neurosis will overtake humanity the likes of which has never been seen before. We can only hope work will continue to be around as long as we are around, for our own sake.

"LISP has jokingly been described as “the most intelligent way to misuse a computer”. I think that description a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts."

This is obviously a compliment; it even mentions that word.

Even a less positive remark than this would still be resounding compliment from a computer scientist who said things such as that BASIC causes irreparable brain damage!

So count this as a piece of evidence that he liked Lisp.

Lisp emphasizes structured approaches, and from the start it has encouraged (though not required) techniques which avoid destructive manipulation. There is a lot in Lisp to appeal to someone with a mindset similar to Dijkstra.

It settles the discussion of array numbering. F*ck off Visual Basic, MS Javascript, and all the languages that said you should start with 1.