Re: bedrock platform

From	kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: bedrock platform
Date	2026-05-09 09:36 -0400
Organization	Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Fri, 8 May 2026 13:38:59 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
>
>> Alan Kay has famously described Lisp as the "Maxwell's equations of
>> software". He describes the revelation he experienced when, as a
>> graduate student, he was studying the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual
>> and realized that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 was
>> Lisp in itself.
>
>I wonder where he thought the lexical analyzer was ...

It could be in hardware.  That's part of the beauty of the language.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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bedrock platform Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2026-05-08 13:38 +0000
  Re: bedrock platform Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-08 21:03 +0000
    Re: bedrock platform kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-05-09 09:36 -0400
      Re: bedrock platform Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-09 23:30 +0000
  Re: bedrock platform not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-05-09 09:42 +1000
    Re: bedrock platform Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2026-05-09 13:29 +0000
      Re: bedrock platform not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-05-10 08:44 +1000
        Re: bedrock platform Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-05-10 12:58 +0100
          Re: bedrock platform not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-05-11 09:15 +1000
          Re: bedrock platform Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-11 00:22 +0000

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