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He's not saying LISP and the Lambda Calculus are useless. He is saying you can't really use LISP if you're implementing the system software on top of which LISP runs.


B-b-but lisp machines! Tagged hardware architectures!


He specifically mentioned "x86 chips".


There is also movitz.




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