Comment by timewizard
Comment by timewizard a day ago
The world Lisp was born in is more like your iPhone example than the intervening years were. Lisp is older than POSIX by 20 years.
Comment by timewizard a day ago
The world Lisp was born in is more like your iPhone example than the intervening years were. Lisp is older than POSIX by 20 years.
I think this contributed more to the demise of CL than is recognized. It was cmucl, sbcl, and other free implementations that kept it alive thru the 90s.
I don’t begrudge Franz and others their licenses, but what happened with the LMI and Symbolics IP is a cultural disaster.