https://web.archive.org/web/20041031063349/http://alu.cliki.net/Paul%20Graham's%20Road%20to%20Lisp

Interesting to note, according to this questionnaire, Paul Graham's third programming language was Interlisp. Before then it was BASIC and PL/1

(This was sourced from https://cl-pdx.com/comp.lang.lisp/2003/oct/121341.html)

#lisp #commonlisp #interlisp

I am tired but I got the god damn triangle. I think I might understand 35% of what I just did but it is drawn. Folks weren't kidding when they said a lot of this is tedious.

#lisp #commonlisp

This series of posts by @sjl is a true gem worth bookmarking. It describes a CHIP-8 emulator in Common Lisp whose techniques are applicable to other systems.

But the series is also a Lisp software design resource in disguise, as it presents a Domain-Specific Language for concisely and clearly describing machine architectures and instruction sets.

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2016/12/chip8-cpu/

#CommonLisp #lisp #SoftwareDesign

📃 Symbolics hypertext document examiner 1985

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7DxYj32cvoE

#symbolics #lispmachine #hypertext #lisp #computinghistory

SYMBOLICS HYPERTEXT DOCUMENT EXAMINER 1985

This is a poor VHS dub but it has been enhanced with images to give clearer details of how the Document Examiner looked.Jan Walker of Symbolics Research desc...

^YouTube

The NuBus started as an MIT research project and was used in such diverse machines as the NuMachine by TI (originally designed by Western Digital), LMI's Lambda and TI's Explorer Lisp machines, the TI1500 family of Unix servers, Apple's 68k (starting with the Mac II) and first generation PowerPC Macintoshes (7100/8100) and, in a modified version, as expansion bus for the NeXT Cube.

#retrocomputing #NuBus #NeXT #Lisp #Mac68k #TI

so after my last lisp post I implemented if statements and functions and a multi-line REPL, why didn't I tried making a lisp before?? it's so much fun!

also thanks to @Andre_LA for introducing me to this lispy world. 😁

#lisp #programming #dev

Did anyone here read the #paper: "Design of #Lisp based #processors; or #Scheme: the dielectric Lisp; or Finite Memories considered harmful; or #LAMBDA: the ultimate opcode" by Guy L Steele and Gerald J Sussman (1979)
<https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5731>

It's starting to interest me *a lot* so I'm reading it again.
If you want to #discuss or know stuff about it I probably don't, come to me!