The odd thing about Lisp was that my programs almost invariably worked (modulo a mismatched paren) the first time. I've rarely had that happen in other environments.
Is that not simply because you thought it all out beforehand and made sure to check the code an extra time before submitting it because you wrote it on paper and had to go through a lot of effort to get it executed on a machine?
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Is that not simply because you thought it all out beforehand and made sure to check the code an extra time before submitting it because you wrote it on paper and had to go through a lot of effort to get it executed on a machine?
Certainly that helps, but I certainly used paper before and it didn’t necessarily produce working code.