From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:19:13 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth!
In-Reply-To: <20180216024857.GH8295@mcvoy.com>
References: <20180216021931.7450118C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Larry McVoy wrote:

>> I think it depend on what you're doing. For some kinds of things, LISP is
>> probably better.
>
> I'd like to be told, as a systems guy, what those things are.
>
> I know that people have done awesome stuff in lisp.  But there is swimming
> downstream and there is swimming upstream.
>

Would MDL be considered a variety or derivative of LISP? Zork was 
originally written in that.

-uso.