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2002-05-10-lispiCalc

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'In 1981, [Dan Weinreb] worked at the [[create MIT AI Lab]], and his girlfriend worked for the folks who wrote [create VisiCalc]. Using the MIT Lisp machine, he wrote an implementation of VisiCalc in Lisp, and improved the commercial product by utilizing the mouse (which at that time was not in widespread use on PCs). He writes, "I did it just to show how easy it was to write VisiCalc if you already have Lisp plus a graphics library and window system—though I'm sure Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston (cocreators of VisiCalc) were perfectly aware of this."' [ Ø L-ODOR • ]