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Re: Lisp
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Mingde (Matthew) Zeng |
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Re: Lisp |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:03:47 -0400 |
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>
> > Most probably for historical reasons. The time GNU was born, Lisp
> > Machines [5] were just the sexiest things around, and, although
> > proprietary, they embodied one of the core ideas of GNU, that is
> > that you can reach into every nook and cranny of your system at
> > any time and change it, ideally while it's running, and see the
> > effects immediately. You, the user, are at the same time the system
> > administrator and the programmer. You are the boss.
>
> I was on the team that developed the Lisp Machine operating system,
> but that is not why I love Lisp. It's the other way around: I did
> that because I love Lisp.
So, why did you love Lisp in the first place? ;-)
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Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
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