> We at #Symbolics were slow to acknowledge this. We believed our own “dogma” even as it became less true. It was embedded in our corporate culture. If you disputed it, your co-workers felt that you “just didn’t get it” and weren’t a member of the clan, so to speak. This stifled objective analysis. (This is a very easy problem to fall into — don’t let it happen to you!) http://lemonodor.com/archives/2007/11/why_did_symbolics_fail.html cc: #lisp #psychology
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...
#lisp #lispmachine #symbolics #genera #pascal #niklauswirth Niklaus Wirth's PASCAL made it to unusual systems: Here is a screenshot of a Lisp Machine, browsing the original Pascal User Manual and Report, but in a hypertext browser, with a PASCAL implementation loaded...
