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Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

Richard P. Gabriel

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

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About Richard P. Gabriel

Richard P. Gabriel (born 1949) is an American computer scientist known for his work in computing related to the programming language Lisp, and especially Common Lisp. His best known work was a 1990 essay "Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big", which introduced the phrase Worse is Better, and his set of benchmarks for Lisp, termed Gabriel Benchmarks, published in 1985 as Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems. These became a standard way to benchmark Lisp implementations.