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subsets of Common Lisp existed early on

• ska 5y ago
  Sure, and lots of lisps existed in the 15 years or so before CL. The ones that looked anything like CL were pretty heavy. I imagine the decision to write elisp at all in the first place was made by people pretty familiar with what existed at the time, and why it wasn't a good fit for them....
  • lispm 5y ago
    xlisp for example started small in 1983 and over time added some CL features. It was also used by Autodesk as the base of Autolisp for Autocad on a zillion PCs... > The ones that looked anything like CL were pretty heavy yeah, Coral Lisp needed 1 MB RAM on a 68k Mac. Morphed into a Common Lisp then. mulisp in 85 supported 0.5MB RAM on a PC. It had some CL compatibility.
  • rjsw 5y ago
    Franz Lisp could probably have run MacLisp Emacs.