Maclisp (or MACLISP, sometimes styled MacLisp or MacLISP) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp. It originated at the Massachusetts...
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PDP-10 and Multics systems. MACLISP would later come to be called Maclisp, and is often referred to as MacLisp. The "MAC" in MACLISP is unrelated to Apple's...
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and improved successor of Maclisp. By the early 1980s several groups were already at work on diverse successors to MacLisp: Lisp Machine Lisp (aka ZetaLisp)...
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Pitman, Kent (December 16, 2007). "The Revised Maclisp Manual (The Pitmanual), Sunday Morning Edition". MACLISP.info. HyperMeta Inc. Declarations and the Compiler...
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Fortran-SLIP language on the Compatible Time Sharing System (CTSS). The 1974 Maclisp reference manual by David A. Moon attests "Read-eval-print loop" on page...
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unrelated Lisp dialects with that name. Emacs Lisp is most closely related to Maclisp, with some later influence from Common Lisp. It supports imperative and...
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(MIT), instead he implemented it in several dialects of Lisp, including Maclisp. He was a technical contributor to X3J13, the American National Standards...
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UCB) by Professor Richard Fateman and several students, based largely on Maclisp and distributed with the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) for the Digital...
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(MIT) during the 1970s, and intended to be the successor to the language Maclisp. It is a 32-bit implementation, and was in part a response to Digital Equipment...
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which purpose Steele and Sussman wrote a "tiny Lisp interpreter" using Maclisp and then "added mechanisms for creating actors and sending messages". Scheme...
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were developed on ITS, including MacLisp (the precursor of Zetalisp and Common Lisp), Microplanner (implemented in MacLisp), MDL (which became the basis...
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programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp. A direct descendant of Maclisp, it was initially developed in the mid to late 1970s as the system programming...
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then jumping to the appropriate address; this is used, for example, in Maclisp to implement one version of the garbage collector. Later models all have...
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machines ran a Lisp dialect named Lisp Machine Lisp, descended from MIT's Maclisp. The operating systems were written from the ground up in Lisp, often using...
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both developed at MIT: LISP 1.5 developed by McCarthy and others, and Maclisp – developed for MIT's Project MAC, a direct descendant of LISP 1.5. which...
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into multiple languages. In the 1970s, the two dominant Lisp languages — MacLisp and Interlisp — both supported fexprs. At the 1980 Conference on Lisp and...
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last three letters of ARPANET.[citation needed] It was first written in Maclisp for the DECSYSTEM-20, then ported to Emacs Lisp in 1992. Since 1994 the...
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the more commercial ideals of Symbolics. He was the main implementor of Maclisp on the PDP-6. He wrote Mac Hack, the first computer program to play tournament-level...
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polynomial factorization, number theory, combinatorics). Macsyma was written in Maclisp, and was, in some cases, a key motivator for improving that dialect of...
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algebraic notation for the Lisp programming language. It was designed for MACLISP by Vaughan Pratt and subsequently ported to Common Lisp. The notation of...
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implementation of arbitrary-precision arithmetic was probably that in Maclisp. Later, around 1980, the operating systems VAX/VMS and VM/CMS offered bignum...
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1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 LISP 1, 1.5, LISP 2(abandoned) Maclisp Interlisp MDL Lisp Machine Lisp Scheme R5RS R6RS R7RS small NIL...
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prototype-based programming languages were Director a.k.a. Ani (on top of MacLisp) (1976-1979), and contemporaneously and not independently, ThingLab (on...
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Engineering Environment *Lisp LeLisp LFE LISP 2 Lisp Machine Lisp Lispkit Lisp Maclisp MDL MLisp newLISP NIL PC-LISP Picolisp Portable Standard Lisp RPL S-1 Lisp...
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the project. The main goals for the language were to be a powerful post-Maclisp version of Lisp that would be portable, compatible, extensible, and efficient...
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Engineering Environment *Lisp LeLisp LFE LISP 2 Lisp Machine Lisp Lispkit Lisp Maclisp MDL MLisp newLISP NIL PC-LISP Picolisp Portable Standard Lisp RPL S-1 Lisp...
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under Python, Ruby, ALGOL) K (also under APL) LFE Logo Turtle graphics MacLisp Nu programming language PicoLisp REBOL Red (programming language) RPL (also...
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Engineering Environment *Lisp LeLisp LFE LISP 2 Lisp Machine Lisp Lispkit Lisp Maclisp MDL MLisp newLISP NIL PC-LISP Picolisp Portable Standard Lisp RPL S-1 Lisp...
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comments the above as follows: Advice appeared separately from Flavors in Maclisp and the Lisp Machine. You could advise any function, just like in Interlisp...
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Engineering Environment *Lisp LeLisp LFE LISP 2 Lisp Machine Lisp Lispkit Lisp Maclisp MDL MLisp newLISP NIL PC-LISP Picolisp Portable Standard Lisp RPL S-1 Lisp...
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