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Phosphorus, The Popular Lisp

We can forget about Common Lisp and Clojure and Scheme now: the problem has been solved by Joseph F. Miklojcik III, in his new paper, Phosphorus, The Popular Lisp.

Thanks very much to Allan MacKinnon for directing my attention to this thread on Lambda The Ultimate.

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It is completely by chance that the node is numbered "69", which has always been a special number at the AI Lab because 69 hex equals 105 decimal and 69 decimal equals 105 octal. When one booted the original Lisp machine, it would demonstrate that it was basically working by printing out one number and one symbol:

105 FOOBAR

  • By Daniel Weinreb at 07/12/2009 - 07:10
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