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From the 2014 incarnation:

> Just to put this paper in an appropriate historical context, I wrote it back when I was trying to convince NASA that flying Lisp on a spacecraft would not be a completely insane thing to do. The Powers That Be had already mostly accepted that it would be OK to fly Java, but they thought Lisp was too big and slow. This study and paper were designed specifically to address those concerns.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8446685




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