Lisp Tlen -

I recently spent a weekend revisiting Telnet, not as a sysadmin, but as a Lisp programmer. Why? Because stripping away TLS, JSON, and REST frameworks reveals something beautiful:

But as a learning tool ? Absolutely. Telnet is the "Hello World" of network protocols. And writing it in Lisp is like learning to cook by making bread from scratch—you understand every ingredient. lisp tlen

If you came of age in the modern cloud era (Post-2010), Telnet is that "insecure thing" you disable on routers. But for those of us who cut our teeth on BBSes, mainframes, or early Unix hacking, —a raw, text-based window into another machine. I recently spent a weekend revisiting Telnet, not