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Reminds me of Ron Garret's article on Lisp at JPL ...

"Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem."

http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html

Following the chain of articles to http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html - Lisping at JPL and seeing that essentially lisp was abandoned because of an unreliable inter-process communications app written in C makes me wonder what SpaceX, Boeing etc are using.

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