Discovered: Aug 3, 2026 16:04 (UTC) ME:: Surprisingly I loved a non fiction book! First one I’ve finished in at least 6 months! Maybe because I love the idea of software that is provable and always have since the 1980s and my painful forays into Lisp and Prolog at Waterloo ; Kevin Hartnett:: The Proof in the Code - Quanta Books

  • Thank you Dennis for writing Lisp back on the Xerox Lisp workstation all those years ago. I just learned how to use the Lisp debugger to run the code backwards and forwards. Lisp debugging was in 1987 sooooooo easy! Dennis wrote the Lisp stuff; I ran the Lisp debugger if I remember correctly haha! I remember debugging as being almost fun! Probably because it was integrated and not bolted on afterwards. Unlike gdb/adb/xdb and the other terrible debuggers I have used for C and C++ over the years. The gdb family of debuggers is not much better than good logging or printing in my probably wrong opinion :-)
  • Prolog on the other hand broke my brain :-) ! Never really understood or learned it but I did pass the course!

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