On 05/11/2010 05:18 PM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> As I understand it, originally almost /everything/ was written in
>> machine code, by hand. Compared to that, C is a very, very high-level
>> language.
>
>    Well, C was invented in 1972, while LISP was invented in 1958, and the
> latter is considered a very high-level language even today.

Yeah. Maybe it's just because Lisp's abstractions are further removed 
from the hardware.

Oh, wait. Lisp Machines.

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