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After using my Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine for several years, I gave it away to someone else where I worked when I was able to put a faster Motorola processor in my
by mark_l_watson 2y ago
After using my Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine for several years, I gave it away to someone else where I worked when I was able to put a faster Motorola processor in my 1984 Mac, bought Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp, and ported utilities like ISI Grapher that I needed. Great programming environment that I used for many practical projects that were financially impactful for my company.
- ralphc 2y agoThe conventional wisdom around here is that Lisp (and Smalltalk) are looked upon so fondly because they were so far ahead of what else we had back then, both in terms of the language and development environments, but other languages have caught up over the years. Do you think there is a modern non-Lisp language and environment that gives you something close to the productivity you had with Common Lisp back then?
- mark_l_watson 2y agoBecause of modern library and infrastructure improvements, I would say most modern programming languages.