Lines of code that changed everything (2019)

distcs wrote: post #5

> The Roomba’s Guidance System > Date: 2002 > Established a new way for technology (and cats) to move in the physical world > (define-behavior (bounce :start-when (or (bump?) bounce-trigger? ) :abort-when (bump-edge?) :onetime? t)) Does anyone closer to the source here know if Roomba is still written in Lisp?

ROS-1 still has quite a lot of functionality written in and accessible from lisp (c++ and python are the major languages nowadays). irobot was founded by alums of the MIT AGI lab, which used lisp extensively.

I suspect that's why lisp is in there at all! It's very likely python/cpp nowadays though.

Re: Lines of code that changed everything (2019)

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Post by Amorymeltzer » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 5:03 PM UTC

pedrodelfino wrote: post #3

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21648568

Specifically, I think the callouts to jQuery (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21651438) and CGI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21654600) are spot on.

Re: Lines of code that changed everything (2019)

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Post by mypastself » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 5:27 PM UTC

Great article, I feel like the quality of Slate has declined significantly in these past few years, so much so that I incorrectly remembered reading this much earlier than 2019.

I wonder if the reason Stuxnet isn’t on there is because its impact is yet to be seen.