Re: A personal outline of the history of Coral Common Lisp

Hi All,

Just my 2c as a relative latecomer to the Lisp world.=20

I have long admired the work of several of the people you mentioned , =
and read the books from Andrew Shalit. I have never had the opportunity =
to work with Mac MCL, but spent lots of time with Dylan in the early =
years.=20

I did discover Lisp in earnest around 1989 and began a long duration =
involvement with Lisp, starting with Harlequin Common Lisp and a bit of =
Franz Allegro Lisp. I have played a few times with Closure Common Lisp. =
My main use cases have always been scientific data analysis, and control =
of laboratory instruments. And while none of my Lisp code ended up =
aboard any space vehicles, all the footwork to prepare them have a long =
list of Lisp code bases behind them from my working groups in Aerospace.

By now I recognize the names of all the people mentioned above, but =
probably never met any of them. But I am deeply grateful for all of your =
work because it and the knowledge gained surely filtered across to other =
implementations and the wider community.

Thanks to all of you!

- David McClain


> On Jul 21, 2024, at 12:37, Ron Garret <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jul 21, 2024, at 11:22 AM, Bill St. Clair <[email protected]> =
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>> I remember Jeremy giving me a 1 megabyte floppy, around 1988, =
plugging it into my Mac Plus, and being amazed that there was a real =
Common Lisp that ran on that little toy computer.
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> Not just Common Lisp, but also an IDE and an interactive GUI interface =
builder that is *still* better than anything I've seen before or since.
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> rg
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