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jmclnx 50 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Lisping at JPL (2002)

> The demise of Lisp at JPL is a tragedy. The language is particularly well suited for the kind of software development that is often done here

That is a shame, but this can be said about many languages of time past. Do schools even teach lisp these days ?

IMO, another casualty of our WEB only environment :(

Lyngbakr 50 days ago [–]

    > Do schools even teach lisp these days ?

IIRC, grads that I interviewed from the University of Waterloo tended to have experience in Racket.

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