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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by qwertyuiop924 on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:01PM (#12710330)
I guess that makes sense. Kind of like how Infocom was compiling their software on a VAX, and distributing it to the micros.

But it's weird to think about how much Lisp/Smalltalk related stuff came out of Apple in the 80s and 90s. I can't imagine them doing that stuff now.

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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by lispm on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:47PM (#12710583)
Apple is doing Swift now. Goes into a similar direction: a "better" language than Objective-C / C++ for application development.

At that time there were key Lisp (and Smalltalk) people in Apple's management, especially Larry Tesler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Tesler

He described why they were working on Dylan:

http://lispm.de/docs/prefix-dylan/book.annotated/foreword.ht...

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Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum by qwertyuiop924 on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:45PM (#12710969)
I should probably look into Swift at some point, but I've never found the time, and I find languages like Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, JS, Haskell, CL, and Scheme far more compelling.
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