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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 4 lisp hackers and a desig... by mechanical_fish on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @09:44PM (#281095)
Serious question for the Lisp wizards in the audience: Hasn't this been done? What aspect of this did the Lisp machines lack? (Disregarding the obvious fact that the specific languages "Ruby" and "Python" hadn't been invented yet, back in the Lisp machine's day?)
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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 4 lisp hackers and a desig... by nick_a on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @02:37AM (#281262)
http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/lispm-faq-and-his...
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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 4 lisp hackers and a desig... by stcredzero on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @02:34PM (#281833)
However, we are transitioning from workstations to server-based applications in the cloud. Lisp machines would have some significant advantages there.
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