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		agumonkey on Dec 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Idea of Lisp someone tweeted that dan ingalls first smalltalk was in BASIC, I always assumed it was in lisp (considering Kay mention lisp in influences and that lisp was teh PL clay)

_19qg on Dec 16, 2016 [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Peter_Deutsch

He worked on both the Lisp and Smalltalk low-level implementations at Xerox PARC.

agumonkey on Dec 16, 2016 | [–]

I have a deja vu, didn't we have that discussion before ?

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