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I saw no mention of a REPL in the story.

• drongoking 7y ago
  Sure, just not the abbreviation. "Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem." I shared the reaction, "wow, must've been glacially slow"
  • dreamcompiler 7y ago
    Point taken. I missed that.
    • lispm 7y ago
      Actually the spacecraft being so far away was the reason to put some Lisp system on it. That was one goal of that mission. The software controlled the spacecraft and did not need detailed programs what to do. It would figure out what to do from higher-level task descriptions and what it sensed. Basically a spacecraft as a semi-autonomous robot. Since it was running on top of Lisp, actually LispWorks, it could also be debugged/reprogrammed at a lower level.