F/OS & the blind

[Paul Lussier]

Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> writes:

> Humor, nothing more.  (And what's funnier than emacs? )

Emacs in vi-mode? ;)

> Any language based on hardware registers from old, unique hardware and
> entirely dependent on recursion will ALWAYS BE DIFFERENT from other
> languages.

True :)

>        >>>>>>>>>>>>   QUIZ TIME!!!!   <<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> Did you know Peter, Paul and Mary wrote a song about Lisp once?
> (Can you guess the title?)  (Use of GOOGLE permitted)
>
>        >>>>>>>>>>>>   QUIZ TIME AGAIN!!!!   <<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> What was the machine that the lisp programming model was based on?
> (NO GOOGLE FOR THIS ONE, YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS.)
>
> First correct answer posted gets a valuable virtual no-prize.

I want to say the DEC PDP-6, but I'm not entirely positive.

This paper:

  http://www.cs.umbc.edu/331/resources/papers/Evolution-of-Lisp.pdf

picks up the history of Lisp from Lisp 1.5.

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Seeya,
Paul