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An entertaining read. The technical reason why LISP 2 failed was the limited memory (42K) of the Q32, but there seems to have been fundamental issues in the con
by lioeters 3y ago
An entertaining read. The technical reason why LISP 2 failed was the limited memory (42K) of the Q32, but there seems to have been fundamental issues in the conception of the language.
> Even if the project had had more mature leadership, it probably could not have overcome the unfortunate choice of an ALGOL-like syntax and type system, overemphasis on compiled code efficiency, and the obscure choice of first machine to build for.. LISP’s fundamental strengths were lost in LISP 2’s design.