Did anyone use Lisp in their home computers during the early PC revolution of the late 70s/early 80s (Apple, C64, etc.)? What was that experience like?

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  • ergolib

    A library designed to make programming in Common Lisp easier

  • Yes. It was awesome. I used P-Lisp on an Apple II in the late 70s and it pretty much laid the foundation for my whole career. In the 80s I did my compiler class assignments in Lisp while everyone else was using Pascal or C. I got my assignments done in an hour while everyone else took days. I still got an A. I did my masters and Ph.D. thesis work using Coral Common Lisp (now Clozure Common Lisp) first on a Mac Plus, then a Mac II, then a Quadra. Nowadays I run CCL on an MBP. I still use some of the library code I wrote back in the 90s.

  • clog

    CLOG - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

  • I followed a similar path, from using Symbolics Lisp Machines in the early 1980's to various iterations of Coral Common Lisp ("Pearl Lisp" anyone?). I developed and sold Mac apps to university genetics/microbiology labs in the 1990's using versions of CCL. They were heavy on GUI and I had to revise my code 8 or 10 times over a period of 5 or 6 years, and finally gave up because I was spending all my time just trying to keep my code up to date. Nowadays, I would recommend using CLOG (via SBCL/Emacs/Slime). CLOG is the sort of thing I dreamed of, at the time, since it provides, among other things, a truely cross platform GUI for common-lisp. ref: https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog

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  • PC-LISP

    Franz Lisp dialect Lisp system

  • If memory serves, I ran PC-LISP on my IBM PCjr (!) around 1986-1987 for small, toy/learning projects. It was a great learning experience and kept the Lisp bug burning in the back of my mind for years before I picked it up again.

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