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Re: Lisp
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Lisp |
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Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:56:02 -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.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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