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Re:Lisping at JPL (2002) by gumby on Saturday January 18, 2020 @07:25PM (#22088457)
Logo basically was Lisp -- a small parser on top of MACLISP.

There were some later small implementations (e.g. for the Apple II) that were written from scratch and didn't need to implement all of Lisp (e.g. lambda, plists, etc).

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Re:Lisping at JPL (2002) by mst on Sunday January 19, 2020 @12:28AM (#22089650)
Does that make logo the sole truly successful form of m-expressions?
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Re:Lisping at JPL (2002) by lonelappde on Monday January 20, 2020 @03:43PM (#22101941)
No, because m+expressions are syntax and logo has a different syntax, and because Mathematica is a successful use of something much closer to m-expressions.
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