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Re:The Bipolar Lisp Programmer by kragen on Friday August 11, 2023 @01:36PM (#37091440)
it is vanishingly unlikely that ken thompson and rob pike are unaware that people sometimes program to explore a problem space
Re:The Bipolar Lisp Programmer by sph on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:14PM (#37092663)
Ken's first language is pretty tolerant of programmer silliness, maybe too much.
Re:The Bipolar Lisp Programmer by kragen on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:19PM (#37095211)
do you mean ibm 709 assembly or what

i don't actually know what he was hacking on at berkeley