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trenchgun | 9 months ago

Also: NASA used to use Common Lisp before

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adityaathalye|9 months ago

"Lisping at the JPL" is one of my favourite stories (all-time favourite, not just computery favourite).

https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

> Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem. The story of the Remote Agent bug is an interesting one in and of itself.