In 1984, 40 years ago, Digital Press published the book "Common LISP: Reference Manual" by Guy L. Steele Jr. and others, more widely known as the first edition of "Common Lisp: The Language" or CLtL1. It was an early major milestone of a Lisp standardization process completed a decade later.
@amoroso#commonlisp#lisp#cltl#cltl1#lispm#symbolics In Symbolics Genera we can switch the language in the REPL/Listener to CLtL. It then also advertizes only this in the features. We can then create a rough overview of the available symbols.
Autism is an atypical neurology, a unique brain wiring crowd cheers in applause
This atypical neurology leads to atypical processing, cognitive functioning and communication, differences in social interaction and sensitivity to sensory inputs such as sound or light. crowd nods in approval, light golf clap
Perhaps if the majority of the population is Windows... nervous laughter, scattered cries of affirmation
...then autistic people are Mac! crowd boos, hurls tomatoes towards the stage
Lower level programming languages should be designed more like tools than all-in-one production platforms. Their design should cater towards seamlessly providing libraries for higher level languages to use. And building operating systems & utilities of course, the only field where they make sense as all-in-one tools.
A big mistake that Rust borrowed (without checking!) from C++ is that systems languages should be a one-stop shop, just as people were starting to accept that this was a mistake.
@amszmidt I would love some scheme based Math CAS. With CL and PAIP you can do a simple one by yourself and OFC there are both Maxima and Fricas, but I prefer Scheme and SICP.
Do you know some algebra lib for Chicken or Guile? cc @ekaitz_zarraga
@glitzersachen@anthk@ekaitz_zarraga absolutely not! Lispers don’t Scheme. #LispM revolution is nigh. InterLisp and ZetaLisp are united in the fight for Lisphood and Lispification of the world.
Oh ok ok .. so counting the total system source code isn't fair, since "UNIX" is just a kernel (it's not ...). The Lisp Machine "kernel" is just 30k lines. #LispM revolution is nigh. looks for a door
Some hackers brag about how small UNIX was (is?); the last version of the Lisp Machine system was about 300k lines. That is including the compiler, debugger, ZMacs, an object oriented system, windowing system, network file system, network chat thing, local file system, tape utilities, ROM programming utilities, Space Wars .... ... ... .. .. .
He started the Cyc project, using Lisp Machines as a development environment. The project is roughly since 40 years ongoing. Cyc was the dream of a large-scale knowledge base of common sense knowledge. One that has many ways of reasoning and making inferences. It used SubL a variant of Common Lisp.
In the Lisp community @lisp on Lemmy.ml there's a discussion on what your Lisp development environment looks like and how you got started with Lisp. Of course I'm the weirdo who uses Interlisp as his daily driver.