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by wes-exp
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By contrast, I recall the story of a guy who had the choice between C and Lisp for his programming class, and chose Lisp because he couldn't figure out C. IIRC Richard Stallman also has a story about secretaries at MIT using Lisp for basically the same reason. |
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The quote your referring to is part of his statement exposing the imbalance of the the educational system within the US in the 80's. Here is the quote which also came from the first announcement to his emacs editor under the tag /Blue Sky/:
When large numbers of nontechnical workers are using a programmable editor, they will he tempted constantly to begin programming in the course of their day-to-day lives. This should contribute greatly to computer literacy, especially because many of the people thus exposed will be secretaries taught by society that they are incapable of doing mathematics, and unable to imagine for a moment that they can learn to program. But that won't stop them from learning it if they don't know that it is programming that they are learning!