Submission + - NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging Lisp in Deep Space (thenewstack.io)
joshuark writes: NASA programmer/scientist, Ron Garret shares his experience debugging LISP code from 150-million miles away on the robotic Mars rover Sojourner. Garret describes his experience in a recent episode of Adam Gordon Bell’s Corecursive podcast. Garret later explains, “And it didn’t work...” for the next project NASA’s New Millennium project using LISP.
Like a professor said in LISP programming class, LISP — getting it done is half DEFUN.
Garret had written an essay in 2006 "How knowing LISP destroyed my programming career." Available on the web archive...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
So much for LISPcraft, or the Little LISPer.
JoshK.
Like a professor said in LISP programming class, LISP — getting it done is half DEFUN.
Garret had written an essay in 2006 "How knowing LISP destroyed my programming career." Available on the web archive...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
So much for LISPcraft, or the Little LISPer.
JoshK.
