Z:gnu-www-ja-rms-lisp--d1f7e7-My first experience with Lisp/en

My first experience with Lisp was when I read the Lisp 1.5 manual in high school. That's when I had my mind blown by the idea that there could be a computer language like that. The first time I had a chance to do anything with Lisp was when I was a freshman at Harvard and I wrote a Lisp interpreter for the PDP -11. It was a very small machine &mdash; it had something like 8k of memory &mdash; and I managed to write the interpreter in a thousand instructions. This gave me some room for a little bit of data. That was before I got to see what real software was like, that did real system jobs.