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Hah, fun: > Debating Maclisp vs Interlisp (i.e. storing code as text vs structure) This really puts "tabs vs. spaces" to shame.
by linkmotif 9y ago
Hah, fun:
> Debating Maclisp vs Interlisp (i.e. storing code as text vs structure)
This really puts "tabs vs. spaces" to shame.
- AceJohnny2 9y agoI found this the most interesting. For one thing reminding me of Erik Naggum's existence, insight, and causticity[1], and for another exploring what seems to be a promising but dead branch of programming. As we continue wishing we had "better ways to write programs", constantly re-exploring visual programming (Scratch and its spinoffs), it's interesting to me that the ALGOL-children (C and the like) have completely lost this way of developing programs. What is there to learn, both from the technology itself and from how we forget? [1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum