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    My 10 favourite pieces of software over time

    21 April 2021

    … - little did we know our destiny!) 2.  Lisp Back to the ’80s. I learned Lisp and AI from general-relatavist-cum-jazz-pianist Ray … look how very widespread JavaScript is - well, it also has Lisp in its genes. Plus Ray was using it for computer …

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    Desert Island Hard Disks: David De Roure

    25 July 2014

    … language with which I could do anything, and for me that is Lisp. To be specific, it would be the Scheme … Scheme will do" as someone once nearly sang. And given one Lisp I can make any other – or indeed any other language, of my own invention. Metalinguistic magic. Lisp was and is my first language and I believe my brain …

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    Desert Island Hard Disks: Kevin Ashley

    18 August 2017

    … to accommodate a very different programming paradigm. LISP taxed my brain cells enough back in the 1980s when …

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