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A comment on Ask HN: How many of you have used or even heard of a Lisp Machine?.

Re:Ask HN: How many of you have used or even heard of a Lisp... by rplevy on Friday June 05, 2009 @06:20PM (#644127)
I predict the Lisp Machine will return, with Android OS Clojure hacking as its embryonic beginning of life.
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Re:Ask HN: How many of you have used or even heard of a Lisp... by asciilifeform on Friday June 05, 2009 @10:58PM (#644412)
The Lisp Machine wasn't simply a piece of hardware which happened to run Lisp:

http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller/symbolics-info/dev...

http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller/symbolics-info/doc...

The Android OS is not written in Lisp. The turtles do not go all the way down. Therefore it is not and will never be a Lisp Machine in any reasonable sense.

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Re:Ask HN: How many of you have used or even heard of a Lisp... by rplevy on Sunday June 28, 2009 @09:10AM (#677693)
It's written in Java, so can be trivially ported to Clojure and made incrementally more Lispish, no? The kernel is still Linux but that could be fixed too, why not?
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