Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying.
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Too many teardrops for one heart to carry on.
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You're way on top now, since you left me,
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Always laughing, way down at me.
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? & The Mysterians
This happy story, though, has a sad interlude, an interlude that might be attributed to the failure of AI to soar, but which probably has some other grains of truth that we must heed. The key problem with Lisp today stems from the tension between two opposing software philosophies. The two philosophies are called ``The Right Thing'' and ``Worse is Better.''