LISPisms

In dynamically typed languages, values have types. In statically typed languages, values have types.

When you use imperative languages, you tell the computer what to do. When you use functional languages, you tell the computer what to do.

I have to agree with the Prolog slander. It sometimes wants to be an ugly Lisp, other times a prettier SQL. I've never felt comfortable with the knowledge base shit being built right into the language. It feels dirty and perverse like that, like BASIC's graphics calls.