lisp machines.
hiring lisp programmers gave everybody a quiz, and he gave it to young 16-year-old Guy Steele, and Guy Steele aced it.
I'd recommend Lisp . He recommends Lisp .
Any of you Lisp programmers in here?
Don't do any Lisp anymore?
Practical Common Lisp .
And when we found Linus with that lisp , I'm like, oh my gosh.
He invented the programming language Lisp .
I was trying to learn LISP for about 48 hours.
I love the guy with the lisp .
No one at Pixar with a lisp ?
So he was there working on these lisp machines and so he basically said he ended up reading a lot of the code, you know for these lisp machines just looking at how stuff worked.
I had had breakfast or a lisp get together and Peter was there and I was fresh off of
We didn't decide we were in love with Lisp , and we wanted Lisp , for example.
You guys heard of that-- the fifth generation computers and Lisp machines, they were going to take over the world.
And the the first version of Reddit was in LISP -2.
Like, Clarice Lispector was born in Ukraine but spent much of her life in Brazil.
- I mean, you are a Lisp guy.
He said to me, why do you lisp ?
And another misconception is that every fact was sort of programmed in some language like Lisp .
And then he took a couple years and wrote this great common lisp book called what?
Like, the protagonist of Clarice Lispector’s novel “The Hour of the Star” is obsessed with Marilyn Monroe.
Everybody wanted to hear the cute and wise things that came out of his lisping mouth.
If you want to write a chess engine, you would use Lisp .
And so for me, probably the moment I really fell in love with programming was Lisp , and writing Othello programs and chess engines,
I said, OK, who here is programmed in LISP ?
I said, who here has heard of LISP ?
a URL to my tweeties I don't know why it sounds like I have a lisp and I meant sweeties but it's
He was sort of like the lisp culture was almost dying out and he as a very young person got sort of enmeshed in that and sort of got it
And Guy Steele -- as always -- was very articulate about stuff, so he wrote a lisp very early on, probably when he was in high school. A lisp implementation for the, I guess, the
He says, "I would not have been able to implement lisp for an 1130 without having access to existing implementations of lisp on another computer.
Guy Steele said, maybe if they had good tool chains for literate programming in lisp he would have done it.
he also went -- and he was at MIT when he was like 13 years old writing a lisp implementation for the PDP-1.
And he learned enough lisp just on his own to be the first person to score a perfect score on a quiz that -- this guy at MIT was
but then the renegades, the cool kids, were all using Lisp .
That's when you're doing the AI, the quote-unquote "AI" at that time, that was Lisp .
And in particular, I was nervous about us casting a Linus, because Linus has this beautiful little lisp .
assignment was like, go and reconstruct that proof, it turned out the easiest method I had to do was to write a LISP interpreter in arithmetic.
It's taught in Python for the last six years, although one year we taught it in Ruby, before that it was taught in Lisp for a long time.
But a friend of mine on the Lisp IRC Channel
He was hired as a high school student to work at then Scott Fellman's AI lab at CMU and got to work on lisp machines and got this
Zawinski was working at CMU on stuff related to AI, but he also was just digging into the graphics code on the lisp machines and writing screensavers, which eventually landed him
This is not now, but Guy Steele described implementing -- making a big change to the Mac lisp system where they wanted to change
They had lisp machines and the Smalltalk, and stuff was -- people were doing sort of serious computation that got a little bit