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Too bad Lisp machines never took off! The basic Lisp operations would have made a good composable foundation.
by yayitswei 7y ago
Too bad Lisp machines never took off! The basic Lisp operations would have made a good composable foundation.
- agentultra 7y agoThey did make a great foundation. Symbolics Genera was super nice apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk
- shalabhc 7y agoSeems so. Also this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/RainerJoswig/status/1213484071952752640 https://twitter.com/RainerJoswig/status/1213484071952752640 - all commands have uniform introspection - console contains 'live views', not dead text - embedded REPL inside apps with commands that mirror the menus and buttons - seamless jump to source, live edit
- dreamcompiler 7y agoIndeed. On the LM, the sort routine used by the OS was the sort routine you called in your program. There was no serialization because everybody agreed on the memory layouts, and the types were tagged at runtime. You could even change the system sort routine if you really wanted to, on the fly. Not a great idea unless you were a wizard, but nevertheless possible.