NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging Lisp In Deep Space

joshuark writes: NASA programmer/scientist, Ron Garret shares his experience debugging LISP code from 150-million miles away on the robotic Mars rover Sojourner. Garret describes his experience in a recent episode of Adam Gordon Bell's Corecursive podcast. Garret later explains, 'And it didn't work...' for the next project NASA's New Millennium project using LISP.

Like a professor said in LISP programming class, LISP -- getting it done is half DEFUN. Garret had written an essay in 2006, titled, 'How knowing LISP destroyed my programming career.' Available on the web archive. So much for LISPcraft, or the Little LISPer.

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