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This is two of the people whose work gave rise to Common Lisp criticizing work in progress on the language. True, they were both academics at MIT, but both were
by mikelevins 6y ago
This is two of the people whose work gave rise to Common Lisp criticizing work in progress on the language. True, they were both academics at MIT, but both were also industrialists--Gabriel founded Lucid and Brooks founded iRobot.
The paper is probably best understood as two insiders criticizing their own work in progress, trying to steer the community they were part of in a direction they thought would be beneficial. Gabriel was a member of the standardization committee, and Brooks was the author of papers influential in development of the standard.
- lispm 6y agoBrooks was also one of the Lucid Inc. co-founders. Looks like he was also instrumental in writing Lucid CL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks "He was one of ten founders of Lucid Inc., and worked with them until the company's closure in 1993." http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/companies.html http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/companies.html There are some cool tidbits in this interview: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1st-Part-RB-for-Ars-Transcript.pdf https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1st-P...
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