jerzy.karczmarczuk@info.unicaen.fr wrote:
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I heard it somewhere trustworthy. Instinctively, I would guess somewhere into the direction of Graham, but I'm not sure at all. On the other hand, you can be absolutely sure that I didn't get it off the next warez-board nor from Bill Gates. The Story, afaicr, went along the lines of "Professor writes something for a cool paper about some calculus, student gets hold of it, implements it and completely baffles the professor, he didn't ever dare to think about letting that one run on a computer". It might be one of those apples that didn't fall off trees while Newton had his idea about gravity, but then it's a complete, nice story with a nice morale on its own. After all, lisp's history isn't as important for me than its semantics, and everything I read about it was kind of accidental, it just wasn't uninteresting enough to skip. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.