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Re:ChrysaLisp by bonestamp2 on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:45AM (#18901378)
Agreed. The first sentence in a readme should always be what it is, does and why... even when it seems super obvious from the name (which is definitely not the case this time around anyway).
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Re:ChrysaLisp by detaro on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:46AM (#18901615)
repository description is a start: " Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more... "
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Re:ChrysaLisp by BossingAround on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:23AM (#18902720)
Honestly, that seems like a string of unrelated things glued together. I don't want to be mean of course, it's just confusing (though if the project is all of that, the documentaiton might be reflective of the confusing state of the project).
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Re:ChrysaLisp by no_identd on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:02AM (#18909311)
You might want to go learn a bit of history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

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