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Re:The future of Lisp... by dlat on Thursday January 22, 2009 @03:43AM (#444532)
What "existing popular VMs" are you talking about? Was there a widely spread VM before JVM? Perl and Python are older than Java, Ruby should be around the same age.
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Re:The future of Lisp... by rbanffy on Thursday January 22, 2009 @05:49AM (#444618)
The Smalltalk VM comes immediately to mind.
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Re:The future of Lisp... by hassy on Thursday January 22, 2009 @05:55AM (#444621)
which one? Squeak first appeared around the same time as Java. was there a free, open-source, solid Smalltalk VM back when Perl, Python or Ruby were started?
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Re:The future of Lisp... by rbanffy on Thursday January 22, 2009 @06:15AM (#444633)
The original Smalltalk VM was not open-source (the concept was not invented back then) but was very well documented and had some different implementations.
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