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I've read this article some years ago and always wanted to ask: besides size, what were the arguments against Lisp in JPL? Author's position is biased, as he re

by myth2018 4y ago

I've read this article some years ago and always wanted to ask: besides size, what were the arguments against Lisp in JPL? Author's position is biased, as he recognizes, then I'm curious about the other side in this story.

jcranmer 4y ago
One of the footnotes mentions that multilanguage integration was causing some headaches, and (the author's bias showing through) that is blamed by the author on the IPC server being crashy because it was C, not Lisp.
- p_l 4y ago
  FWIW, it was the C code that was crashing ;)