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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: Symbolics & LISP Machines
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- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 22:43:50 GMT
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- In article <Bx9L43.6r0@world.std.com> jcooley@world.std.com
- (John Cooley) writes:
- >A lot of what I know about them is quite old. I don't know what they're doing
- >today but here's a quick synopsys of what they've done:
- >
- >It was founded by some MIT LISP gurus and practically every piece of code
- >written in that company was in LISP. (And I mean everything! mailers, editors,
- >file managers, - you name it, they've probably done it in LISP.)
-
- Is that so unusual?
- I have a Greenblatt right here. (Wow what a chance to do an Annie Hall...)
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- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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