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> I know that the hw had assembly instructions that mapped almost one-to-one to Lisp primitives. In my example you see the assembly. You can see how much 'one-
by lispm 12y ago
> I know that the hw had assembly instructions that mapped almost one-to-one to Lisp primitives.
In my example you see the assembly. You can see how much 'one-to-one' it was...
The C compiler compiled to Lisp and then to machine code. Same for Pascal. For Ada, I don't know.
- DonHopkins 12y agoI once visited a Washington DC Beltway Bandit government contractor's office who had a Symbolics Lisp Machine that they used exclusively to develop Fortran code, which they compiled into Lisp and debugged with the awesome programming tools. And of course there was Gyro's Zeta-C compiler, with an interactive C listener.
- mietek 12y agoArtefacts of a future past…