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Dan Weinreb had a different take on the symbolics era and the MIT lab.

[1]: https://danluu.com/symbolics-lisp-machines/

Thanks for the link - that puts quite a different perspective on those events. I had the luck to get to know Dan Weinreb during the International Lisp Conference 2009 in Boston - great guy.

It should be too surprising as it took place at the MIT, but many of the founders of Lisp were present. Dan, Guy Steele, Richard Gabriel, JonL White, and so many more. It was really inspiring.

Interestingly, though the ILC is a conference about all flavous of Lisp and its applications, RMS wasn't attending the conference.

I was at an Emacs Lisp introduction course given by Richard Stallman, at some ILC.

All I can see is a man pathetically trying to justify himself, and failing.

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