Symbolics / LISP machines

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Thu May 20 11:44:20 2004

[quoting order fixed -dM]
>>>> * Symbolics 3650 (heavy)
>>> I'd love to get a Lisp Machine, but I really can't justify to
>>> myself either the shipping costs or the space it would take up.
>> OK.. so how do I see such a machine... I can't figure out how a LISP
>> machine "works" , or gets programmed.
> A "Lisp Machine" is a specialized computer, mostly made in the 80's,
> that ran, er, LISP.

:-)

Yes indeed. And in the late '80s and early '90s I had the pleasure of
using some Lisp Machines (from Symbolics). It's a beautiful
environment, if you can get your head around Lisp, with the best
object-oriented programming environment I have had the luck to use
(admittedly, Smalltalk is not among that set, so I can't comment on how
it compares).

Also, one of the Symbolics keyboards was, to me, the best keyboard I
have ever used.

All in all, a nice machine. As I said, I'd love to get it...but.

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