Elmord's Notes: Common_Lisp
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Podcast: Peter Seibel: Common Lisp Standardization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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Lisp50 Notes part V: Interlisp, PARC, and the Common Lisp Consolidation Wars
Teitelman’s early work had to do with debugging Lisp programs while they were still running. When he presented it at a conference in 1968, he was completely flamed by Dijkstra! “We shouldn’t make it easier for programmers to recover from bugs,” Dijkstra said angrily. (He’d been visibly shaking his head through out the talk even before this outburst.) “How many bugs are we going to tolerate?” he demanded. “Seven,” Teitelman shot back. The audience laughed, of course, but Dijkstra never forgave him. From that day forward, Dijkstra referred to him as the Internationally Renowned Computer Entomologist!
(via https://yosefk.com/blog/refix-fast-debuggable-reproducible-builds.html)