How to pronounce “lisp”(noun) in English

hiring lisp programmers gave everybody a quiz, and he gave it to young 16-year-old Guy Steele, and Guy Steele aced it.

Any of you Lisp programmers in here?

Don't do any Lisp anymore?

Practical Common Lisp.

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

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?

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

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