[net.ai] Wait till he discovers the parenthesis key!

CC.Clive@UTEXAS-20.ARPA (03/13/84)

From:  Clive Dawson <CC.Clive@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>

        [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?

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