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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker)
Subject: Re: lisp dream
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 19:40:08 GMT
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In article <DF.94Oct23050218@pollux.acs.oakland.edu> df@pollux.acs.oakland.edu (Daniel Finster) writes:
>Has anyone else been in the position, in a dream of not only dreaming
>_of_ lisp, but _in_ lisp as well (my debugging efforts were expressed
>as yet more generation of lisp code..), and where you were not only
>the author, but the interpreter as well?

I've heard it said that people dream in black-and-white instead of color.
I don't think that anyone has bothered to ask, but I think that people
may dream in 6-BIT ASCII UPPER CASE ONLY, as well.  :-)

Sussman and Steele had a paper ~1980 called the 'Dream of a Lifetime',
which is supposed to be the result of a parenthetical dream...

      Henry Baker
      Read ftp.netcom.com:/pub/hbaker/README for info on ftp-able papers.

