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As part of the SPICE project there was an implementation of Lisp on the machines. This implementation became CMU Common Lisp. CMU Common Lisp is still availab
by pfdietz 2y ago
As part of the SPICE project there was an implementation of Lisp on the machines. This implementation became CMU Common Lisp. CMU Common Lisp is still available, but it also served as the jumping off point for Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) which is today the top free Common Lisp implementation.
It's interesting there's a heritage of code stretching all the way back to these old machines, although of course the changes since then have been massive.
- fanf2 2y agoI like that Three Rivers refers to the geography of Pittsburgh. For a long time I did not know where SBCL got its name, until someone explained that Carnegie got his fortune from steel and Mellon ran a bank.
- lispm 2y agoNote also that Spice Lisp for The PERQ was also used to implement Hemlock, an EMACS editor. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/perq/accent_S5/Accent_UsersManual_1984/05_Hemlock.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/perq/accent_S5/Accent_UsersManu...