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I've gotten the impression in the past that ISLISP was largely based on pre-existing work by Queinnec, but I don't have any proof.
by ruricolist 10y ago
I've gotten the impression in the past that ISLISP was largely based on pre-existing work by Queinnec, but I don't have any proof.
- groovy2shoes 10y agoI think it might be fair to say that Christian Queinnec's "Reasonable Lisp" had some influence on the ISLISP committee, but overall ISLISP as a language is very obviously intended to be "compatible" with Common Lisp, in the sense that an implementation could be conformant to both ISLISP and Common Lisp in a single "mode". In fact, Kent Pitman wrote an ISLISP "compatibility package" in Common Lisp in order to make sure it was do-able prior to the ratification of ISLISP. I.e., ISLISP can be implemented as a library for Common Lisp, without the need for a separate interpreter/translator.