3 ms·
Symbolics sold ISO Pascal, C, Ada, Prolog and Fortran compilers for it. I've used TeX and the original MIT X11 server on a Lisp Machine.
by lispm 12y ago
Symbolics sold ISO Pascal, C, Ada, Prolog and Fortran compilers for it.
I've used TeX and the original MIT X11 server on a Lisp Machine.
- ScottBurson 12y agoMy Zeta-C compiler predated Symbolics C by almost two years. One customer said they'd run millions of lines of code through it.
- hga 12y agoSo Symbolics' announcement of their vaporware C compiler didn't cost you all your sales? Good to hear that.
- ScottBurson 12y agoIt was a problem, as I recall, but not nearly as big a problem as the fact that people stopped buying the machines :-) Actually, it turned out -- though I never managed to communicate this to potential users -- Zeta-C and Symbolics C served different use cases. Symbolics C was best for porting entire C programs; Zeta-C was best if you had a library written in C and wanted to call it from Lisp.