[HN Gopher] The History of Franz and Lisp ___________________________________________________________________ The History of Franz and Lisp Author : lisper Score : 40 points Date : 2022-04-15 19:16 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (ieeexplore.ieee.org) (TXT) w3m dump (ieeexplore.ieee.org) | usr1106 wrote: | I used Franz Lisp on our student VAX 11/750 at university, maybe | in 1985. I have no idea what kind of license the university had | and how much they had paid for it. That wasn't a question you | would ask yourself those days, all computers were worth millions. | | Around those days the university also bought a Symbolics. But its | capacity was well below the VAX so students didn't get to use it | without working on any very specific project in just that Lisp | group. | rjsw wrote: | Original Franz Lisp was open source, your university could just | download it from UCB. | | I ported it to the Atari ST around that time. | housel wrote: | At that point it was probably the free Franz Lisp that was | included in BSD Unix 4.2 or 4.3, which had an interpreter and | compiler (with basically MACLISP semantics so it could run | Macsyma) on VAX and mc68k platforms. As an undergraduate in | 1986 I ported it to the CCI Tahoe, which was a VAX clone with a | slightly simplified instruction set (and the main platform on | which the BSD 4.3Tahoe release was developed). | mark_l_watson wrote: | That was a fun read. Franz is a good company. My consulting | customer a while back also hired them for a while - really smart | people. Jans Aasman, mentioned in the interview, gave me funding | to write a book that was partially on AllegroGraph (that book, | very indirectly, led to my being invited to work on a knowledge | graph project at Google). | | For those interested, I recommend downloading the free version of | AllegroGraph as a docker image, and the free version of their | Common Lisp IDE. Their latest IDE is web based, with a background | Lisp app. Neat idea. | agumonkey wrote: | Didn't know about SDC/III Lisp 2 | | - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISP_2 | | - http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp2_fami... | pmcjones wrote: | I think Fenaughty must have been involved with a much later | project: the LISP 2 project at SDC (with III) started in 1963. | pxeger1 wrote: | Not to be confused with Franz Liszt | cschmid wrote: | Sounds the same if you have a lisp. | divbzero wrote: | That's how I read it too. According to the founder of Franz | Inc. in OP, the language was "so named to induce feelings of | false familiarity stemming from a wide awareness of composer | Franz Liszt". ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-15 23:00 UTC)