Re: The myth of fingerprints, er, no, garbage collectors

"Syed Zaeem Hosain (as Syed dot Hosain at aeris dot net)" <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jul 2026 04:13:12 +0000
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Scheme was designed in 1975 by Guy Steele and Gerry Sussman at MIT. Althoug=
h I did not meet Guy, he and I overlapped as students at MIT (I graduated i=
n 1978 and he finished his MS in 1977 and PhD in 1980, as I recall).

I helped wire-bond their Scheme chip implementation (Guy, Gerry, and Jack H=
olloway did the design) in 1978 at the MIT Semiconductor Lab (I was finishi=
ng my thesis) in the first VLSI course taught by Paul Penfield and Lynn Con=
way.

Ah, memories ...

Z


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I think around the 1990 era, the Scheme Language was invented for use on th=
e Connection Machine by Guy Steele?



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