Subject: Re: low quality lisp books
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 22 Sep 2001 07:42:02 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <9ohfca$l2p6a$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Dr. Shlomo Argamon  <argamon@sunlightNOSPAM.cs.biu.ac.il> wrote:
+---------------
| "Geoff Summerhayes" <sNuOmSrPnAoMt@hNoOtSmPaAiMl.com> writes:
| > "Tim Bradshaw" <tfb@cley.com> wrote:
| > > Wimp.  Real programmers don't waste their time on that assembler
| > > language crap.  Real programmers write their programs in silicon.
| > 
| > Poofdah. Kids and their silicon implants. Oh, for the good old days,
| > a sheet of core and a bar magnet.
| 
| Spoiled moderns!  Give me a bunch of gears and rods any day!
+---------------

(*sigh*)
Full circle we now come. Thank you, Ivan Sutherland, for describing such
wheels of reincarnation. <URL:http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/72129/0>

I refer, of course, to the nanotech guys' plans for gear & rod computers...


-Rob

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