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I worked at MCC too, but in the human interface group. It was a lot of fun using Symbolics machines all day (the ultimate brain-to-computer interface). Despite
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
I worked at MCC too, but in the human interface group. It was a lot of fun using Symbolics machines all day (the ultimate brain-to-computer interface). Despite nothing much coming from my work at MCC, I still got to write Lisp and Prolog for pretty much my whole career, and MCC set me on that path. So I'll thank them for that.
- dcreemer 7y agoI'm also an MCC alum - I worked in the Software Technology Program. My code there had a surprisingly long life - transitioning to a spin out startup and then other companies. (See gIBIS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compendium_(software)#History https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compendium_(software)#Histor... ). I too learned Lisp (and Emacs!) there - two tools that have stuck with me ever since. Many of us also started to learn Japanese there.
- gumby 7y agoI am glad to hear of good MCC outcomes!
- quelltext 7y agoIf you don't mind my asking, what are you using Prolog for these days? I've only done one basic course on it a long time ago and really liked it but I don't think there are many places that use Prolog nowadays.
- dreamcompiler 7y agoQuerying graph databases. Prolog is a lousy data storage engine but it's a fantastic query language--much better than SQL, IMO.