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> The Genera Lisp Machines had compilers for C, Ada and Pascal available. Also Fortran and Prolog. Though added language were expensive. Usually it would also
by lispm 11y ago
> The Genera Lisp Machines had compilers for C, Ada and Pascal available.
Also Fortran and Prolog. Though added language were expensive. Usually it would also be useful to have a FPU option.
Thus a Lispm with Fortran would cost something like $100000 in the mid 80s. Which makes it possible to use Fortran, but not to an attractive price. ;-) 'Exotic systems' + software ported to exotic systems => expensive or not available. For decade the Symbolics approach was available and expensive, later it moved to 'mostly not available'...