Re:Maybe adding generics to Go is about syntax after all
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:03PM
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https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ has historical data going back to 1988. (Presumably they used a different methodology for the older data.)
But I remembered wrong. They list Lisp as #2 in 1988.
Re:Maybe adding generics to Go is about syntax after all
by kazinator on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:24AM
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In the realm of personal computing, Lisp was nothing in 1988. "Nobody" was doing any Lisp programming for affordable consumer hardware. Lisp had almost no mindshare among people who got started in computing with 8 bit microcomputers in the late 1970's and 80's and who moved on to PC's and
Macs. (Speaking of Macs, there was maybe the OpenMCL exception there.) Lisp was something that you heard about that ran on "big iron" owned by exclusive institutions. Lisp machines count as that, basically.
Re:Maybe adding generics to Go is about syntax after all
by lispm on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @03:01PM
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Macintosh Common Lisp was mildly popular on Macs. Apple used it themselves in several projects and eventually bought it, hired the team and sold it into their developer channel.
Another interesting offer was MacScheme.
LeLisp had a Mac version and it was used to implement an interface builder, which was demoed to Steve Jobs, who then hired the developer to create a version for NeXT.
Both Symbolics and TI delivered Lisp Machine boards for the Mac II.
Procyon developed a Common Lisp with UI for both Macs and PCs.
ExperCommon Lisp was another Lisp for Macs.
XLisp had Mac version.
On the PC there were numerous Lisp implementations.
Unlikely, given that TIOBE the company wasn't founded until 2000, and the TIOBE index is based on web search engine results, and there weren't any web search engines, or a web for them to search, in the 1980s.