From the conversation buildup it looks like these requests (use Smalltalk, Lisp) were common at Google, thus could be responded to with "precomputed" no (i.e. i

From the conversation buildup it looks like these requests (use Smalltalk, Lisp) were common at Google, thus could be responded to with "precomputed" no (i.e. it was not the first time VP had to ponder the request).