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Is Common Lisp the first kitchen sink language (ala C++)? It always seems to me like there's a lot of "Oh yeah, Common Lisp has a feature for this, too"-type bl
by formerly_proven 3y ago
Is Common Lisp the first kitchen sink language (ala C++)? It always seems to me like there's a lot of "Oh yeah, Common Lisp has a feature for this, too"-type blog posts, though very little about actual usage of it.
- pjmlp 3y agoCommon Lisp is the uniformization of what Lisp Machines across Genera, TI, and Xerox PARC (although Interlisp-D was a different species) were offering for a full graphics workstation, alongside other systems. It was as kitchen sink as having POSIX (basically a full blown UNIX specification), to be expected to fill in the stuff missing from ISO C standard library.
- int_19h 3y agoIt's a rather subjective assessment. ALGOL 68 and PL/I were apparently considered rather "kitchen sink" by the standards of their time.