Re: Aha! moments

rpw3@xxxxxxxx (Rob Warnock) writes:

Zach Beane <xach@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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| - learning that CLX is a Lisp program, not a binding to the C xlib
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Learning that Eric Marsden's "PG" talks the PostgreSQL socket
protocol directly, and is not a binding to "libpq.so".

Yes! New examples keep coming to my mind, too. Two in particular are
Franz's NFS server for Windows and their FTP server. When I first saw
them, I couldn't imagine that people might write that sort of software
from scratch with Lisp.

Zach

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