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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by PeCaN on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:03PM (#12705693)
Looking at software today, I'm note sure we're perf-obsessed enough actually. Fortunately, simpler, faster, and more powerful all go hand in hand if you pick the right abstractions.

And I am building something better—think AS/400 with an APL-inspired Forth dialect. It is certainly alienating, but (hopefully) the system will have enough fun demos to hook people, and the language runs on other OSes to tempt people in. ;)

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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by qwertyuiop924 on Friday October 14, 2016 @06:57AM (#12707260)
That sounds cool :-). Let us know when you release.

As for your opinions on perf, I can see where you're coming from, but I'm a Lisp programmer. If I agreed with you, I likely wouldn't be one.

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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by analognoise on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:47AM (#12706193)
Do you have anything to show off of the other system you're working on? It sounds interesting.
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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by PeCaN on Saturday October 15, 2016 @07:43PM (#12716146)
Not a whole lot, no. There are some cryptic documents on the language and some various experiments I've done with the seL4 microkernel. Currently I'm working on getting the language solidified and the completing the implementation (and removing all the usual dependencies, so that it should be relatively straightforward to port to a fairly bare microkernel environment).
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