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Re:Lisping at JPL (2002) by dTal on Sunday January 19, 2020 @09:04AM (#22091470)
So, someone had lisp, thought "I want to teach people programming", and instead of just teaching lisp directly, chose to implement something quite different in syntax and spirit?
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Re:Lisping at JPL (2002) by taeric on Sunday January 19, 2020 @12:49PM (#22092717)
To be fair, that is the lisp spirit. They wanted to do something, imagined what that language would look like. And then implemented it in lisp. :)
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