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History of UtiLisp Hacking (1990) [pdf] (softwarepreservation.org)
18 points by tosh on May 24, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



BTW, the author of the paper, Dr. Wada, also created the Happy Hacking Keyboard.


Thanks for that morsel of information.


Amazing how far computers have come: I ran that TARAI function from the example in SBCL on my (years-old) laptop, and it completes in 2 milliseconds — at the time, some of the implementations were taking tens or hundreds of seconds!




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