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Subject: Prof. McCarthy's retort
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This is a very cute, and compact retort, but not very convinving; it admits
of very many similar cute and compact retorts, one of which is given below
as an example :

"Why would I want to write a program in assembly language that figured out
how to stack colored blocks on a table, and very very slowly at that ?"

or,

Prem Devanbu  

(A diehard lisp fan who would like to see a better argument for lisp,
even if it is less cute or compact)