Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!CC.Clive@UTEXAS-20.ARPA From: CC.Clive@UTEXAS-20.ARPA Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Wait till he discovers the parenthesis key! Message-ID: <144@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 14:19:16 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.144 Posted: Tue Mar 13 14:19:16 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 08:45:56 EST Lines: 19 From: Clive Dawson[Forwarded from the UTEXAS-20 bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.] [FYAmusement: The following item was found on SAIL's Bboard, contributed by Ron Newman. --CBD] The following letter to the editor was published in Softalk of March, 1984: I have come into possession recently of a program called Microlisp. I understand that it has been around for some time, so maybe someone out there knows something about it. I cannot get it to do anything but print numbers I type in or print the word "nil". How do I make it do anything else? Can you give me an example of something useful that I might be able to do with it? [...]