{"by":"jacquesm","descendants":15,"id":743053,"kids":[743285,744365,743221,750745,743062,743174,745032,743088],"score":17,"text":"What were they like to work with ?<p>How much effort was it to program them ?<p>How did they compare to the other machines available at the time ?<p>How do they compare with the machines available today ?<p>Other 'special' computing architecture experiments from that period would be nice to hear about as well!","time":1249461311,"title":"Ask HN: Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine?","type":"story"}