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The Square USA team, along with contemporaneous Naughty Dog, are famous for having used Lisp/Scheme in game/graphics production of that time. Would you attribute this decision to your shared MIT heritage?


We had a serendipitous confluence of Lisp/Scheme fans at the company.

My boss had worked at Symbolics Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DTjrY1LXrk

I was a Lisp fan from my days of hacking on Symbolics at the Media Lab: https://kaveh808.medium.com/late-night-lisp-machine-hacking-...

And one of our developers was a Lisp programmer who had implemented his own version of Scheme: http://practical-scheme.net/gauche/




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