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Maybe it lacks now, but it DID have heavy sponsors (Carmegie Melon University and Nasa are two that come to mind). The implementations we have now are based on
by vindarel 7y ago
Maybe it lacks now, but it DID have heavy sponsors (Carmegie Melon University and Nasa are two that come to mind). The implementations we have now are based on this work.
- taeric 7y agoI would have said they were involved, but they didn't market it. So, sponsor isn't right. I'm specifically thinking how Sun pushed Java. That said, I cede I could just be wrong here on history. :(
- lispm 7y agoOriginal Lisp vendors (Lucid, Symbolics, TI, LMI, Xerox, Franz, Harlequin, Goldhill, ...) and other companies selling CL (HP, DEC, IBM, Apple, SUN, Tektronix, ...) did market it, but that ended in the mid 90s with many of them exiting the business.