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Ryan Chitwood's avatar

Really excited for this series!

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Christian Lynbech's avatar

Is it not a bit of a stretch to claim that compilers comes from the AI field? After all, FORTRAN predates the definition of LISP by a couple of years, and LISP did not get a complete compiler until 1962. In the beginning, people were hand-translating LISP code into FORTRAN to be able to run the programs (as somebody related, I think at the 50'th anniversary conference in 2009).

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