Mastodawn

@otfrom I mean it's not just #InterLisp. Harlequin had a really nice Common #Lisp development environment back in 1989; so did Texas Instruments; and I believe the Symbolics environment was pretty nice, although I never got to play with it.

And now we're back to editing fucking text files in a fucking text editor, like cavemen!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LispWorks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_Explorer

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Simon Brooke 15h ago

@otfrom something with discoverable configuration would be nice. Consistent theming would be nice. Active browsable caller graphs and class inheritance graphs would be nice. Break inspectors in which you could inspect and edit the contents of the stack frame and then restart the computation would be lovely. A structure editor... surely a structure editor isn't too much to ask for?

WE HAD ALL THIS FORTY YEARS AGO. Why is it so hard now?

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The Medley Interlisp Project 18h ago

This screenshot demonstrates a turtle graphics library that Ryan Burnside wrote for Medley Common Lisp.

https://groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c/NIhVeqiHABQ/m/sGOnRCKbEwAJ

#TurtleGraphics #CommonLisp #interlisp #lisp

The Medley Interlisp Project 3d ago

If you are looking to contribute to Medley Interlisp the PICK tool helps you decide what to do. This module picks and displays a random Medley GitHub issue, file, or project to work on.

https://files.interlisp.org/medley/lispusers/PICK.TEDIT.pdf

#interlisp #lisp

The Medley Interlisp Project 5d ago

Are you using Lisp applications of Medley Interlisp or doing coding projects? We would love to hear what you are doing with the system.

#interlisp #lisp

The Medley Interlisp Project Apr 9

This Medley Interlisp primer, released in 1993, also includes a glossary. It is interesting to browse through the entries as some describe features we now take for granted, others obscure ones that are no longer common.

https://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/interlisp-d/199202_Medley_2.0/An_Introduction_to_Medley_Release_2.0_Feb92.pdf#page=10

#interlisp #lisp #retrocomputing

Paolo Amoroso Apr 7

If you use Medley Interlisp with a non US keyboard and can't type : and other characters, give this trick a try by running Medley with medley -v which also improves the performance of Medley a little bit.

https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/115031949680969152

You need TigerVNC installed.

https://tigervnc.org

#interlisp #lisp

The Medley Interlisp Project (@[email protected])

If you use a non-US keyboard the best setup for your layout is to run Medley Interlisp under VNC: add the -v option when calling the medley script. You need TigerVNC and Medley built for X11, the default. This setup works at least on WSL and Linux. #interlisp #lisp

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The Medley Interlisp Project Apr 6

Medley Interlisp comes with the BITMAPFNS library for reading, writing, and viewing bitmaps in the native system format.

https://files.interlisp.org/medley/lispusers/BITMAPFNS.TEDIT.pdf

#interlisp #lisp

The Medley Interlisp Project Apr 3

This 1988 report contains rare screenshots of Jericho Interlisp, an Interlisp-D port to the Jericho personal computer. This experimental workstation was developed at BBN in the early 80s and also ran Pascal.

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA203845.pdf#page=53

More details on the Jericho (page 6):

https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/94/93%20(1981)

#interlisp #bbn #lisp #retrocomputing

Paolo Amoroso Mar 31

This website has a couple of screenshots of InterLISP/65, an implementation of Interlisp for Atari 8-bit micros. Notice the POKE form.

https://alchetron.com/Interlisp

#interlisp #atari #lisp #retrocomputing

Interlisp - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Interlisp (also seen with a variety of capitalizations) is a programming environment built around a version of the Lisp programming language. Interlisp development began in 1967 at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts as BBN LISP, which ran on PDP10 machines running the TENEX operat

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