quote:Original post by haro
Lisp''s development was 100% guided by the machine architecture it was going to be running on. Without an intimate knowledge of the target machine''s architecture Lisp obviously would never have come to exist. As much as academia loves to portray programming languages as beautiful formal problem descriptors, they are nothing but a way to interface with a PC as mentioned earlier..
Man, talk about trying to twist a quote to your own advantage. Of course he is going to have to worry about architecture when he has to write a compiler to convert the source to a machine readable format. He is going to have to pick a machine to start with. That doesn''t mean he sat and studied the IBM 704 to create the language.
First make it work,
then make it fast.
--Brian Kernighan
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