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I find this funny coming from someone whose handle is "lispm". You probably would have found McCarthy's original Lisp demo¹ unconvincing, too. Think about it.
by pwpwp 14y ago
I find this funny coming from someone whose handle is "lispm". You probably would have found McCarthy's original Lisp demo¹ unconvincing, too. Think about it.
¹ http://www.paulgraham.com/mcilroy.html http://www.paulgraham.com/mcilroy.html
- swannodette 14y agoActually that demo sounds awesome.
- lispm 14y ago'Symbolic Integration'? Sounds a bit more interesting than 'equal'. Lisp was quickly used to program complex stuff, even on tiny machines. McCarthy's group worked on AI stuff like game playing, theorem proving, language understanding, ... In the early 60s the first self-hosting compiler was a Lisp compiler written in Lisp. Or see the work on symbolic integration by Joel Moses: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/MIT-LCS-TR-047-corrected-ocr.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/MIT-LC...