[Coco] XLISP!!!!!

[Rick Taylor]

You know, I have a copy of MS BOB somewhere. I installed it to see what it
was about once. It's, um, strange. But not so bad, really. You just navigate
through rooms and click on objects to do stuff. Kind of like an adventure
game.

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Manny <manney at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, May 28, 2011 02:34:40 AM Willard Goosey wrote:
> > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:13:51AM +1000, Mark McDougall wrote:
> > > LISP was around long before the term object-oriented was fashionable.
> > > AFAIK vanilla LISP is not object-oriented, but there exists an
> extension
> > > (CLOS) that facilitates object-oriented programming in LISP.
>
> CLOS is for Common Lisp.  Other dialects have it built in, etc.
>
> > The XLISP guy is still around and still doing XLISP.  www.xlisper.org
>
> I'm only seeing http://www.xlisper.com.  Is it a typo?  Also XLISP looks
> like
> it's a Scheme, which is a LISP.  But if you say that to a Schemer, you'll
> probably get hit...  :)
>
> On a side note from the .com page, anyone know what BOB is other than a
> deceased Microsoft monstrosity?
>
> -M.
>
> > And you're right, LISP predates the whole OOP thing.
> >
> > > No doubt like yourself, my LISP is limited to a single CS assignment.
> >
> > Just about. I've done a little EMACS-LISP but that's not really that
> > portable to other LISPs.
> >
> > > I implemented my assignment in uLISP (mu-LISP) under CP/M on my TRS-80
> > > Model 4P. Back then I was pretty chuffed whenever I could do *any*
> > > assignment on my own machine at home, rather than use the computer
> labs!
> >
> > Heh, I bet.  Computer labs suck.
> >
> > Willard
>
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