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Maybe you could, and you can believe whatever you want, but in 30 years, no one has.

• pjmlp 7y ago
  Sure they did, JVM and CLR are kind of approximations of this. Then the development experience still exists when using commercial Common Lisps, and Smalltalk provides also such full stack and interactive experience.
  • somesortofsystm 7y ago
    Yeah, I think its really just a bit of NIMBY in terms of opposing views. "Nobody has done that yet" isn't really true - just nobody has commercialized a new-generation implementation of the Symbolics ideology in a way that is easily recognized. I mean, Unreal Engine Editor is pretty close to having a lot of the mechanics right, in terms of a parallel/similar implementation. Perhaps its just not in the nay-sayers view, or there's a disagreement about what the interface/execution environment 'really' is. Anyway, with its management of C++ builds, UE could probably be pushed to compete with this rig.
  • kjs3 7y ago
    JVM & CLR are an interesting counterpoint. I'm not sure I agree, but that's interesting to think about. I disagree a bit with commercial Common Lisps. It's been a while since I used one (Allegro, Lucid), but I never felt they were full-stack integrated in the way that Genera was. Maybe though that's just nostalgia 25 years down the line and I'm remember that it "wasn't Genera". They were a fine environment to work in. Smalltalk...I think you got me there. There were/are some very nicely integrated Smalltalk environments. Good point.
• oalae5niMiel7qu 7y ago
  ....except Terry Davis.