Spice Lisp
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Paradigms | Multi-paradigm: procedural, functional, object-oriented, meta, reflective, generic |
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Family | Lisp |
Designed by | Scott E. Fahlman |
Developer | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Spice Lisp Group |
First appeared | 1980 |
Last release | Final
/ 1985 |
Typing discipline | Dynamic, strong |
Scope | Lexical, optional dynamic |
Implementation language | Spice Lisp |
Platform | PDP-10, PERQ |
OS | TOPS-10, Accent |
Website | www |
Influenced by | |
Lisp, Common Lisp | |
Influenced | |
CMU Common Lisp (CMUCL) |
Spice Lisp (Scientific Personal Integrated Computing Environment) is a programming language, a dialect of Lisp. Its implementation, originally written by Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Spice Lisp Group, targeted the microcode of the 16-bit workstation PERQ, and its operating system Accent.[1][2] It used that workstation's microcode abilities (and provided microcodes for the languages Pascal, C, and Ada) to implement a stack machine architecture to store its data structures as 32-bit objects and to enable run time type-checking. It would later be popular on other workstations.
Spice Lisp evolved into an implementation of Common Lisp, and was renamed CMU Common Lisp (CMUCL).
References[edit]
- ^ Gabriel, Richard P. (May 1985). Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems (PDF). MIT Press; Computer Systems Series. ISBN 978-0-262-07093-5. LCCN 85-15161.
- ^ "CMUCL history".