On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Carlos A. Felippa wrote:
> I do remember Strawman & family, since I was working for a big DoD
> contractor (Lockheed) in the 1970s.
Yowch... As fuggly as Steelman was, it was fifth revision... Strawman
musta been about 1e4 times worse... err, whatever proposals met that
standard, however exactly that worked... (Job w/ Lockheed must have been
interesting though)
> The Lisp reference was a joke. I dont think that monstrous merge was ever
> considered becuase Lisp was never in the mainstream.
Yeah, I know. :) Still nobody but the AI crowd takes LISP too
seriously--just like back then...
--me
"Just my $2E-2..."