What I really wanted to do at the time was use Lisp, actually, but I didn’t say it. And [Alan Eustace] goes, “Well!” He says, “Well… how would you feel if there was a team out there who said they were gonna use… LISP!”
He’d pulled his ace out, and he brandished it at me, and I went: “That’s what I wanted to use.” And he goes, “Oh.” And that was the end of the conversation.
Steve Yegge, Dynamic Languages Strike Back, Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium, 2008
Emacs is the world’s last Lisp Machine. All the rest of them are at garage sales.
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