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pjmlp 31 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A road to Lisp: Why Lisp

"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."

- Guy Steele, Java spec co-author

"35 years of Lisping at SISCOG"

https://www.siscog.pt/en-us/blog/35-years-of-lisping-at-sisc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-A0E9...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

sph 30 days ago [–]

I respect Guy Steele immensely, but his view of Java as being halfway to Lisp is sign that he had jumped the shark by that point, and find it hard to take the rest of his work seriously.

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