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There were rumors that older generations of spacecrafts fly on lisp systems. Nevertheless, you see, they had C-interpreter (REPL) there.))


You're likely thinking of this essay: http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html



Thank you for this. This is almost a meta-story, how "politicians"/"managers" are always ruining everything that is good and true, meaning of which they genetically incapable to grasp.


REPLs are very good for interactive development, regardless of the language.




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