Re:Learn C
by 1123581321 on Sunday June 02, 2013 @03:18PM
(#5809714)
The use of C and C-likes by the JPL rather than Lisp is a sad story; it means robotics has not advanced as fast as it could have. http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Learn C
by LowKarmaAccount on Sunday June 02, 2013 @08:00PM
(#5810616)
I love the postscript of this:
"It is nonetheless supremely ironic that the demise of Lisp at JPL was ultimately due in no small measure to the unreliability of a C program."