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I'm well aware of the origins of LISP, but reality is that C model is much closer to hardware architecture used in commodity hardware at the time. C made a lot
by yogthos 8y ago
I'm well aware of the origins of LISP, but reality is that C model is much closer to hardware architecture used in commodity hardware at the time. C made a lot of sense under the constraints, and that's the reason it became popular.
- lispm 8y agoOther than what you wrote, LISP did not need 'super computers'. It ran on the same and smaller machines as the original C. A PDP-1 was never a 'super computer', neither were the other PDPs. They were 'minicomputers' or 'mainframes'. Actually super computers (CDC, Cray, ...) were not a particular popular target for LISP implementations, ...
- yogthos 8y agoFair point, you didn't actually need super computers to run LISP.