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Yeah, that's true. Nonetheless, Smalltalk really feels like an improved version of working with Lisp.

That's true. Although I still say you'll have my sexprs when you pry them from my cold, dead hands :).

Although, I wonder if I could hack together a lisp on top of the cog vm. That would be cool.

Anyways, what kind of awesome job do you have where you get to write st for a living? :)

The Lisp Machine keyboard had dedicated open and close parenthesis keys, so you could hold a hefty bag of nitrous oxide in your other hand while you typed s-expressions.

Wait, what are you doing with that nitrous oxoide? Should I start worrying?

Reflecting on the S-expressions I just typed!

Well, when you're done with the nitrous oxide, just toss whatever you wrote into the obfuscated code contest.

There's a reason the paren keys had really fast auto-repeat!

I've been sort of thinking of fiddling with a Lisp on the cog vm for a while. That vm does a bunch of things I want (including the images people are talking about here).

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