Re: What would a modern LispOS look like?

"Sascha Matzke" <sascha.matzke@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Stefan Mandl wrote:
I think Lisp Machines had support for compiling C-programs, didn't they?

I don't think so... Why care about C if you have a machine dedicated to Lisp?

The Symbolics Lisp Machine had (what I think was the first, even before Unix)
ANSI (draft) compliant C compiler, and it was used to do things like
compile the X Windown System.

Symbolics also had FORTRAN, ADA, PASCAL, TeX, and some other compiled languages.
This allowed people to have the same wonderful development and debugging
environment, including source-level debugging, fancy stepping, breakpoints,
inspection, and so on, that was offered for Lisp. (Actually, the compilers
and the debugging support for those other languages was, for a long time,
somewhat better than what was available for Lisp on the machine.)

There was also a third-party C compiler which ran on all the MIT-derived Lisp Machines.
None of this is to be confused with various language translators and simulators that
also abounded throughout the history.
.

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