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If he had used Lisp how would he have ported it to so many machines? I programmed in Common Lisp quite a bit in grad school and I liked it, but it was always on
by waynecochran 11y ago
If he had used Lisp how would he have ported it to so many machines? I programmed in Common Lisp quite a bit in grad school and I liked it, but it was always on a specific platform. I would use Lisp even now, but I'll often use C/C++ just because I know I can get it to work most everywhere.
- _ph_ 11y agoSBCL runs pretty much everywhere: http://sbcl.org/platform-table.html http://sbcl.org/platform-table.html
- rjsw 11y agoIt didn't when Mathematica was being developed. CMUCL on i386 wasn't released until 1996. Kyoto Common Lisp was available in the late 80s and was fairly portable since it compiles to C.