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one of the more famous criticality incidents of this type is naughty dog, who were trying to make crash bandicoot or something but ended up, thats right, making a lisp
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@Skirmisher @jk yes, this makes me angry no matter the perspective from which I view it. That elevates it to art, I'm pretty sure.  @jk Oh yeah! I remember reading an article about that in Game Developer Magazine. It must've been one of the post mortem articles. I was hoping it was online somewhere, but I've had no luck finding it. I did find this from Andy Gavin: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-bandicoot-gool-part-9/   to be fair they also made *more than one lisp*
@jk hey for the last of us they made their own dsl in racket. And still shipped! Pretty sure they didnβt add more control rods for that. (Canβt believe that Iβm arguing that smart people can sometimes shipβ¦)  These days, you've got Lua and Python and Guile and MRuby and Tcl and Squirrel and so on, so you don't really need a Lisp at all. Anyway, Ruby is the best Lisp you'll ever need. *ducks, runs* @mebassett @jk It was actually created for the Uncharted series (and used for Last of Us as well). But even within Naughty Dog it made a lot of people very angry and was widely regarded as a bad move. @danl1240 @jk yes I met part of the team at racketcon way back when where we gave dueling talks about how we sneaked racket past our corporate overlords. (We had found a bug in the multiprocessing library that caused random crashes and took us like a month to narrow down into its smallest reproducible sample but I talked about sneaking racket past managers instead) |
@jk Yeah, but it does self-correct, because as soon as 2 programmers each invent a Lisp, they will argue forever as to whose Lisp is the True Lisp.
It's like the computational Fermi Paradox. Lisp is the Great Filter that prevents a runaway intelligence singularity.