joshuark writes: NASA programmer/scientist, Ron Garret shares his experience debugging LISP code from 150-million miles away on the robotic Mars rover Sojourner. Garret describes his experience in a recent episode of Adam Gordon Bell’s Corecursive podcast. Garret later explains, “And it didn’t work…” for the next project NASA’s New Millennium project using LISP.

Like a professor said in LISP programming class, LISP — getting it done is half DEFUN. Garret had written an essay in 2006 , titled, “How knowing LISP destroyed my programming career.” Available on the web archive. So much for LISPcraft, or the Little LISPer.

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