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I saw a talk once by Siskind who was a very smart fellow. The origin of the name Stalin in this case came from "Static Language { (I)mplementatio(N) }" in deli
by cb321 4y ago
I saw a talk once by Siskind who was a very smart fellow. The origin of the name Stalin in this case came from "Static Language { (I)mplementatio(N) }" in deliberate contrast with "Dylan" [1] which was a more dynamic dialect of Lisp being developed at the time whose principles he disagreed with. I think he worked on Dylan originally, so one could also say he disagreed with the principals as well as the principles. ;-)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
- pflanze 4y agoFWIW, I've wondered whether your use of the past tense meant that he died (maybe it's just me thinking that way), so I've verified that this doesn't appear to be the case, his CV [1] has been updated this year. [1] on https://engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi/ https://engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi/
- cb321 4y agoSorry, I meant the tense simply to refer to that one talk (to not overgeneralize), but I could see how it would lead to your question.