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Re:A Road to Lisp: Why Lisp by pjmlp on Friday July 10, 2026 @08:23AM (#48858910)
"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."

- Guy Steele, Java spec co-author

"35 years of Lisping at SISCOG"

https://www.siscog.pt/en-us/blog/35-years-of-lisping-at-sisc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-A0E9...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

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Re:A Road to Lisp: Why Lisp by sph on Saturday July 11, 2026 @07:55AM (#48871245)
I respect Guy Steele immensely, but his view of Java as being halfway to Lisp is sign that he had jumped the shark by that point, and find it hard to take the rest of his work seriously.
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