You still want 1977 tech, because those guys all had one or more PhD’s in subject matter required to build not just the software, but the hardware to run it as

You still want 1977 tech, because those guys all had one or more PhD’s in subject matter required to build not just the software, but the hardware to run it as well. As a result of that, the software they designed is still very high tech if unorthodox, even by today’s standards. Modern Lisp is like using a faster than light spaceship with a gravitational distorter (moves by falling into the projected distortion), compared to getting from point A to point B in a gasoline automatic car which is leaking oil (Python); If you run into some ‘70’s and ‘60’s tech, take the time to master it so that you could build antigravitational devices all day long (XKCD Python import.antigravity joke notwithstanding). Lisp is still cutting edge technology, and it’s from the ‘60’s and the ‘80’s by the way.