Web pioneer hits critics with Lisp gauntlet

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 7, 2008 5:21 PM EDT
Reg Developer; By Phil Manchester
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Maverick programmer and venture capitalist Paul Graham is challenging all comers to beat him after finally releasing a working version of his Lisp update – called Arc. Best known for his pioneering early 1990s work on web development and spam filters, Graham announced in 2001 he was working on an economic version of Lisp, one of the oldest languages still in regular use for production systems - with Cobol and Fortran - that’s used in artificial intelligence programming and considered something for “serious” developers.

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