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> His reference to ‘LISP’ is, of course, referring to CLOS. Definitely not. The all-caps "LISP" should be the strongest hint, but he name drops McCarthy and Ca
by deckard1 4y ago
> His reference to ‘LISP’ is, of course, referring to CLOS.
Definitely not. The all-caps "LISP" should be the strongest hint, but he name drops McCarthy and Carl Hewitt. McCarthy's LISP didn't have closures, so I'm thinking Alan is referring to something closer to Scheme. Which might make sense as Scheme is based on ideas from Hewitt (actors, message passing, etc.). But Alan isn't being terribly specific. You have to understand there are thousands of different "LISP" systems in the world. Many of which are just in some thesis or white paper.
- bradrn 4y agoHmm, this is interesting. Rereading that post, it looks to me like McCarthy and Hewitt are mentioned as influences rather than a manifestation of ‘OOP’ as such, and I can’t quite think of any OOP system in Lisp he could be referring to other than CLOS, but then again I don’t know sufficiently much about this area to be sure either way.