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		fencepost on Sept 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Logos are Remembered Why is there a bunch of what looks like really old BASIC code at the bottom? Pretty sure most LISP processors will choke on that.

gertef on Sept 22, 2017 [–]

That's LOGO, not LISP.

The program at top is a LOGO interpreter, written in LISP.

fencepost on Sept 23, 2017 | | [–]

Thanks, somehow I managed to grow up in the 80s without ever actually using Logo and getting LISP only in one programming course plus a little bit of Emacs (vi FTW!).

mark-r on Sept 22, 2017 | | [–]

If you have to explain the joke, it's not a very good joke.

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