Wednesday October 26, 2005 
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Wednesday October 26, 2005 Amusing SeeBeyond Tidbits - Lisp Did you know that one of the two working languages at SeeBeyond used to be a variant of Lisp? It was called Monk, after the idea that medieval monks passed messages from one generation to the next in their work as scribes. Monk was used as the scripting language in version 3, and in version 4, although it was optional in 4, since Java could also be used. It was only in version 5, where we are now, that Monk disappeared. It was said that Lisp's recursive structure made it ideal for parsing messages. In fact, SeeBeyond got a patent on this idea, which was largely implemented by old-time crusty Unix/Lisp guy Lealon Watts, who regularly rode his bicycle 20 miles to work each way. Posted by davidleetodd ( Oct 26 2005, 10:20:07 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]
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