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The Interlisp manual defines residential programming like this: «The "residential" style, where you stay inside the environment throughout the development, is essential for these t…

Do you mean Medley Interlisp or another macOS port? https://interlisp.org

Did you use LFG Grammar Writer's Workbench for linguistics work or research back then? Ron Kaplan is looking to revive the system and make it run on Medley Interlisp again.

Never mind, it's just me. Maybe my ISP blocks the site.

Archive.ph hasn't been working for at least a week or so: it never loads.

The tests against Seibel's book were meant as a quick way of assessing the major differences with ANSI. But books like this are also a way of exercising the part of the language th…

You're welcome. Although the manuscript was circulated internally for feedback over tha past few months, we published it to the Medley Interlisp Project website only a few days ago…

Volume I of the Medley LOOPS series about the Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System, an Interlisp object extension. Volume II is coming in the late fall of 2024, Volume III in th…

One year ago or so one of my posts ended up within the first few items of the home page and my blog got about 35K views over 2 days. The blog is hosted on a commercial platform and…

Author here. LOL fixed, thanks.

Author here. Yes, on MS-DOS I used Turbo Pascal versions later than 4.

Or just [$] like Linux Weekly News does to tag its social posts that have paywalled links.

I addressed this in my reply to slayerjain above. As a hobbyist I don't mind projects that may be infrequently maintained or abandoned.

I'm a hobby programmer with no production requirements, so I often use projects maintained by only one developer who may not be much active if all all. Also, since I program in Lis…

Stars, forks, algorithmic rankings, or other popularity metrics are actually the least important things for me. Assuming a project does what I need, what I'm interested in is the a…

This post also explains what EURISKO does by putting it into the context of the later system Doug Lenat worked on, Cyc https://outsiderart.substack.com/p/cyc-historys-forgotten-ai.…

In "Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint" PowerPoint creator Robert Gaskins tells how he designed and developed the most famous slide presentation application. The bo…

Right now I can access the Feedburner site with no issues.

The discussion basically says you don't follow an edit the full program-compile-run cycle like in other languages with batch compilers. Instead, you interactively create a program …