Re: Larry Masinter talk today: origins of Lisp at PARC & modern Medley

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* (car (cons 1 2))
1
* (cdr (cons 1 2))
2
* (cons 1 2)
(1 . 2)

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:56 PM Gregory Alan Bolcer <[email protected]> wrote:

> greg@FX39:~$ sbcl
> This is SBCL 2.0.1.debian, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
> More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>
> SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
> It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
> BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
> distribution for more information.
> * (car '(a b c d e))
> A
> * (cdr '(a b c d e))
> (B C D E)
> * (car (cons 'x 'y))
> X
> * (cdr (cons 'x 'y))
> Y
> *
>
> On 12/8/2020 2:48 PM, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
> > (cdr (1 . 2)) would be 2... were dots involved?
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:49 AM Gregory Alan Bolcer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Just yesterday I dusted off my lisp skills.  Wikipedia had and entry and
> >> CAR and CDR which seemed wrong.    I thought:
> >> (car (1 2)) = 1
> >> (cdr (1 2)) = (2)
> >>
> >> But the wikipedia article said cdr was the atom of '2', not the list of
> >> '2'.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/car-_0026-cdr.html
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_and_CDR
> >> Thus, the expression (car (cons x y)) evaluates to x, and (cdr (cons x
> >> y)) evaluates to y.
> >>
> >> I was going to write a correction, but gave up.  I am a Lisp aficionado
> >> to the core.
> >>
> >> Greg
> >>
> >> On 12/8/2020 10:30 AM, Rohit Khare wrote:
> >>> Short notice, as it's today at 3PM Pacific:
> >>> https://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/vqhmbpybcqblb/
> >>>
> >>> I'm looking forward to learning more, but also seeing how Larry's
> making
> >>> the most of his post-Adobe career. I was glad to see him at the
> Computer
> >>> History Museum last year, with the same sparkle in his eye :)
> >>>
> >>> Stay safe,
> >>>     Rohit
> >>>
> >>> PS. The event link isn't resolving for me, so LMK if you make it:
> >>>
> >>
> https://meet.lisp.nyc/LarryMasinterTheMedleyInterlispProjectStatusAndPlans
> >>>
> >>> Medley Interlisp is the environment from the old Xerox Lisp machines,
> >> which
> >>>> was spun out to a company called Envos, which then turned into Venue.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> It was once a commercial software development environment aimed at the
> >>>> 1980s AI market, and it contained many influential ideas. Notecards,
> for
> >>>> example, was a conceptual predecessor of Apple's Hypercard, and D-EDIT
> >> and
> >>>> S-EDIT are sort of the canonical ancestral structure editors.
> >> Masterscope
> >>>> and the "file package" included system-management tools that combined
> >>>> features of version control and build systems, with comprehensive
> cross
> >>>> referencing support.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Medley was the latest release of the Xerox Lisp environment, before
> the
> >>>> whole environment was renamed Medley. It was originally written in
> >>>> Interlisp (a dialect separate from the MACLISP/Common Lisp tradition,
> >> with
> >>>> its own ancestry), but later, Common Lisp also became part of the
> >>>> environment. Medley includes WYSIWYG text editor (TEdit), email
> >> organizer
> >>>> (Lafite), performance tools (Spy) and many other libraries and user
> >>>> contributed code (from the 1980s).
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> The 1992 ACM Software System Award, to Daniel G. Bobrow, Richard R.
> >>>> Burton, L. Peter Deutsch, Ronald M. Kaplan, Larry Masinter, Warren
> >> Teitelman
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> for their pioneering work in programming environments that integrated
> >>>> source-language debuggers, fully compatible integrated
> >>>> interpreter/compiler, automatic change management, structure-based
> >> editing,
> >>>> logging facilities, interactive graphics, and analysis/profiling tools
> >> in
> >>>> the Interlisp system.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> At this point the base system is usable enough on 64-bit OSes and
> quite
> >>>> fast (A $40 pi runs Lisp > 150 times faster than a $30,000 Xerox 1108
> in
> >>>> 1982).
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> https://interlisp.org
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