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This doesn't ring true to me. I've never found any reference to VisiCalc being written in Lisp -- there's no reference to that at all in either Dan Bricklin's
by sanj 18y ago
This doesn't ring true to me.
I've never found any reference to VisiCalc being written in Lisp -- there's no reference to that at all in either Dan Bricklin's site or Bob Frankston's site:
http://www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm http://www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm
http://www.frankston.com/public/?name=implementingVisicalc http://www.frankston.com/public/?name=implementingVisicalc
In fact, I've heard stories about wrangling assembly code to make it work.
Can anyone verify this?
- allenbrunson 18y agoagreed. the author doesn't sound like a programmer, even. i smell a fake.
- ken 18y agoThe above blog post is now #5 on google for "visicalc lisp". If Visicalc was written in Lisp, it's the best-kept secret of the 1980's.