The LISP 2 Project (2017)

Post by pmcjones » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 8:53 PM UTC

lispm wrote: post #4

The actual LISP 2 project to update LISP 1.5 (also conceptually, for example with a new syntax) was done in the mid 1960s. It was famous for its failure. From 2017 is the work done to collect historical documents, source code, etc. about the LISP 2 project.

Post by lispm » Fri, Jul 14, 2023, 6:50 AM UTC

pmcjones wrote: post #11

lispm wrote: post #4

The actual LISP 2 project to update LISP 1.5 (also conceptually, for example with a new syntax) was done in the mid 1960s. It was famous for its failure. From 2017 is the work done to collect historical documents, source code, etc. about the LISP 2 project.

Actually, the collection work took place around 2005-2010. I wrote the first draft of the paper in 2012, but didn't submit it for publication until 2017.

Post by nielsbot » Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 3:47 PM UTC

lproven wrote: post #14

nielsbot wrote: post #12

Sounds a bit like Dylan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) "Dylan is a multi-paradigm programming language...created in the early 1990s by a group led by Apple Computer." "Dylan derives...from Scheme and other Lisps;...However, Dylan has an ALGOL-like syntax instead of a Lisp-like prefix syntax."

I've long thought that Dylan is the single most promising programming language which went nowhere that I've seen in some 40 years in the computing field.