From: Tim Bradshaw on
On 2010-08-04 11:03:41 +0100, Xah Lee said:

>
> What is the overall meaning of this drawing? The first time i saw
> this, i thought of one thing, but next day, looking at this pict
> again, i got a opposite impression. (scroll down to see my
> impressions)

Yes, it's obviously a reference to 2001: the people who built the
monolith (and hence the people who made us human) used Lisp.

From: Petter Gustad on
Xah Lee <xahlee(a)gmail.com> writes:

> Xah Lee, 2010-08-04
> byte mag cover 1979-08 LISP

I actually have that Byte magazine (as well as the Smalltalk version a
couple years later, august was always the language issue). I love the
title of one of the articles:

BYTE August 1979, Volume 4, Number 8, Page 10

An Overview of LISP,
John Allen
Signetics
811 E Acques Ave
Mail Stop 38
Sunnyvale CA 94086

"LISP is a higher level machine language"

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