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Yup. (Was that intended as a correction to something I wrote? If so, I wasn't clear enough and I apologize.) Regardless, it may be worth adding that ZetaLisp w
by gjm11 11y ago
Yup. (Was that intended as a correction to something I wrote? If so, I wasn't clear enough and I apologize.)
Regardless, it may be worth adding that ZetaLisp was one of the most important "source" dialects from which Common Lisp emerged, and that Symbolics people were heavily involved in the process. Genera wasn't so far from being "an OS of Common Lisp" even before there was a Common Lisp.
- lispm 11y agoThe main difference: ZetaLisp was developed specifically as a language and its implementation for a certain type of Lisp Machines as an OS language. Common Lisp OTOH is a domain independent Lisp standard with only very few specific OS-related features.