On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:27:04 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> >> And Smalltalk
>> >
>> > Don't forget Lisp.
> 
>> None of which are particularly popular. Do you wonder why?
> 
> They are too awesome to be handled by mere mortals?

:)

When I was at uni, we had an 'intelligent' air traffic control program we 
were working on.  The first version was written on a machine that used 
lisp as its shell interface - and you could do weird things like reverse 
the direction the instruction pointer ran using a CLI script written in 
Lisp.

Wish I could remember what the machine was.  It wasn't very fast (this 
was in the 1989-1991 timeframe), but it was pretty amazing tech.

Jim

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