Re: Naive DEFSYSTEM replacement

I’m optimistic that as retro computing interest grows more systems will be revived.  The beauty of a standard like CL is you can implement it on a system like AmigaOS even if the current implementations don’t support it and any CL libraries would be (relatively) portable, provided they didn’t rely too heavily on implementation specific behavior.

— jon
On Jul 28, 2025 at 08:56 -0400, Gary Palter (as gmpalter at fastmail dot com) <[email protected]>, wrote:
> My client is using ASDF on Genera. They do their development on Genera and deliver on CCL. Some of their clients are Fortune 500 companies.
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>   - Gary
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> > On Jul 28, 2025, at 8:04 AM, Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On 28 Jul 2025, at 11:55, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > ca. 2000 — VAX/VMS
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> > We've just tried to work out when the last VMS systems at a large bank I used to work for were turned off.  It's certainly after 2020: perhaps 2023?.  Those weren't Vaxen of course, and I'd be surprised if they were running anything written in Lisp.  But I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are not still VMS systems out there running Lisp applications in production.
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> > Famously the past is never dead. It's not even past.
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> > --tim
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