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A comment on Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Experience (1978) [pdf].

Re:Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Exper... by aton on Friday April 12, 2013 @12:00AM (#5536540)
The thought of lisp coming back to life as other forms like clojure, makes me wonder if in a couple of decades a modern form of c++ will be trendy. In that universe, the current hate of java and c++ will be the cool stuff.

Is this the technology keep evolving, or is it us keep changing our minds?

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Re:Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Exper... by seanmcdirmid on Friday April 12, 2013 @12:25AM (#5536616)
Lisp is like Gothic architecture that can and has stood the test of time. C++ is more like Brutalist architecture that had its appeal and still appeals to some...
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