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ISLisp. Find anyone who hates it :-) This is another standardized Lisp that even Common Lispers and Schemers respect. The ISLispers were the Trotskyists perse
by mahmud 17y ago
ISLisp.
Find anyone who hates it :-)
This is another standardized Lisp that even Common Lispers and Schemers respect. The ISLispers were the Trotskyists persecuted by the DoD backed CL Stalinist politburo. They had a beautiful Lisp that reconciled all the Lisp differences without sacrificing good taste. However, it was a high-level design that left too many details to the whims of implementers, and would have been impossible to stay compatible to without active and deliberate cooperation.
There you have it. And I must go now to board a chopper to to an Alaskan rehab/work program for my reactionary accusations against the U.S. Department of Defense, and the venerable X3J13 ;-)
- eru 17y agoEuLisp may have a similar story?
- mahmud 17y agoYes; ISLisp was an international effort (EU + JP + some U.S. delegates) while EuLisp was purely European (France and UK.) Also, EuLisp is a more divergent dialect, and even more ambitious than common lisp; it had ML style modules, continuations via let/cc, generic LAMBDA (yes, first class anonymous methods!) full support for TCO and other goodies. EuLisp was an ideological successor to LeLisp (which was ancient and fugly) and I consider both the academic dabblings of one Christian Quinnec, Lisp designer extraordinaire.