Good write up Michael. I am still a little sad that InterLisp is, as you say, relegated to the dustbin of history - even though I only used InterLisp for a year

Good write up Michael. I am still a little sad that InterLisp is, as you say, relegated to the dustbin of history - even though I only used InterLisp for a year before Xerox switched my 1108 to Common Lisp. There are many interesting interactive systems being built, but not always used much. I spent some time playing with Glamorous Toolkit for Pharo Smalltalk on Saturday because I have a conference call this Thursday that the author will be on - I wanted to check out his ideas which are basically code in a live data environment and save code so that it can be refactored, run, etc. in the system code browser. I really love the idea of building a language up in layers to become an application specific language. I mostly use Common Lisp now and the developer experience is very different than it used to be. As great as Lisp machines were, I am going to be a bit of a heretic and say that I much prefer my current setup with amazingly fast hardware with a GPU when I need it, SBCL, and Quicklisp to help me keep my code organized and mix in other peoples’ libraries.