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That's simply not true. Gosling wrote a commercial implementation, but Steele and Stallman wrote the first versions of Emacs.

I also strongly recommend agent-shell. I use it for all my work with Claude.

I always enjoy Rich Hickey's thoughtful and insightful talks.

I'm a huge fan of agent-shell, too. It keeps getting better and better, and it's infinitely customizable, like any good Emacs package.

That used to be a problem, but Claude Code has been doing fine at it for a few months now.

First, read the blog post more carefully. Then read the book Hackers, by Steven Levy. Common Lisp was designed by amazing hackers for amazing hackers. Joe was making a comparison with languages like Java, which has some nice characteristics, but whose designers have repeatedly stated that their goal was pragmatic utility for working developers rather than extreme language power. I'd rather use a language that gives me extreme power, and take the risks.

I've known Joe for decades. I've never heard him describe himself this way, but I can confirm that it is true. He is amazing.

Ambition is still a human characteristic.

I'm don't care. If it's good, it's good.

What an ambitious and impressive project! I'm going to try it.

One note: The home page says "Nothing phones home," but the Bento files I've examined include a cloudflareinsights.com beacon.

Eddie Murphy had a great comedy bit based on that car.

I don't understand this comment. They wrote SICP.