Lisping at JPL

3 adityaathalye 2 5/22/2025, 8:31:36 AM flownet.com ↗

Comments (2)

adityaathalye · 10h ago
Tells one of my all-time favourite stories.

> 1994-1999 - Remote Agent

> Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem. The story of the Remote Agent bug is an interesting one in and of itself.

anthk · 10h ago
Forth would be a good choice too. No GC, use 'forget'.