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I see the horse is not dead enough, we should continue beating it some more. The Lisp Machine is what happens when a group of engineers cannot distinguish visi
by popvol 12y ago
I see the horse is not dead enough, we should continue beating it some more.
The Lisp Machine is what happens when a group of engineers cannot distinguish vision from tunnel-vision. Probably because they have lived far too long in the self-congratulatory universe of Lisp, and believe in the divinity of S-expressions and CONS cells, never once questioning the foundations of their faith.
- PhantomGremlin 12y agoI briefly met the Symbolics engineers and I didn't get the feeling that they were zealots like you suggest. This all happened over 30 years ago. Intel didn't have a hegemony in CPUs. There was funding available to try new things in hardware. Some of it failed, some of it succeeded. Thirty years from now we will be rolling in laughter at the absurdity of so many of today's startups.