Dialects of Lisp

Re:Dialects of Lisp by mark_l_watson on Friday February 22, 2013 @02:27PM (#5266181)

You are correct, I think, on the bad timing. Also factor in that Common Lisp used to be expensive to use and deploy. In the early 1980s, I 'went cheap' and bought a Xerox 1108 (for $25K, which was a lot of money in those days). Deployment costs? Buy a 1108 for each customer. Yuck! I used my 1108 for prototyping and demos (and made money selling an AI product written for it), but no deployed systems.

Today with free SBCL and Clozure (among many others), deployment is free - what I would have given in the 1980s for something like SBCL!

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Re:Dialects of Lisp by lispm on Friday February 22, 2013 @05:03PM (#5267171)

We deployed Common Lisp on Unix for nothing using KCL/AKCL/GCL. AKCL appeared in the mid 80s.

In the 80s SBCL was called CMUCL. Free.

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Re:Dialects of Lisp by mark_l_watson on Friday February 22, 2013 @06:50PM (#5267720)

That is true. I don't remember why I didn't use CMUCL. We were mostly a Dec VAX shop; perhaps VAX was not supported?

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Re:Dialects of Lisp by lispm on Saturday February 23, 2013 @05:02AM (#5269190)

If you were using DEC Common Lisp, you might have used bits of CMUCL.

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