I always liked the way Larry Wall put it: "Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in."

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/7700fb02a2...

then he went on and desi^h^h^h^h ... crea^h^h^h^h ... hacked Perl...

Agreed, but the name is Crockford. His site, which has a bunch of interesting JavaScript links on it: http://crockford.com

Woops my bad, apologies to Mr. Crockford.

You'd better apologize: http://crockfordfacts.com/GN_06PA13xG5uKNcAkuh_Q

There's some great stuff in there. I really liked this one:

  // somedev1 -  6/7/02 Adding temporary tracking of Login screen
  // somedev2 -  5/22/07 Temporary my ass

(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-c...)

I noticed that too. I don't think it's necessarily a sign that females are more likely to shirk responsibility. Maybe just that guys are less likely to call it "playing hooky".