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		1123581321 on June 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn C The use of C and C-likes by the JPL rather than Lisp is a sad story; it means robotics has not advanced as fast as it could have. http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

LowKarmaAccount on June 3, 2013 [–]

I love the postscript of this:

"It is nonetheless supremely ironic that the demise of Lisp at JPL was ultimately due in no small measure to the unreliability of a C program."

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