LispM Links
Monday, October 3, 2005
My post yesterday "MIT Open Sources the LispM Code" seems to have generated a lot of interest (if my logs are anything to go by ;-) ). For those of you who are not familiar with LispM's and who would like to learn more, I can recommend the following links:
- Jaap Weel's Lisp Machines: A well-organized "link fest" containing many links to other sites dealing with LispM's. If this site didn't exist, I would need to list a lot more links here; however, since it does exist, just go to Jaap's site and browse.
- A Brief History of Lisp Machines: Provides an overview of the different LispM developments. It's good for getting a high-level picture of where the different LispM's fit into the overall scheme of things.
- Rainer Joswig's LispM videos: Rainer Joswig has made a series of videos illustrating what working on a LispM is like. They are very highly recommended; however, his site can sometimes be a bit slow. Some mirrors are located here. Rainer also maintains a page of annotated LispM screenshots that are useful for getting a feel for what the LispM development environment is like.
- LispM Manuals: The Computer History Museum has links to the ZetaLisp and other LispM manuals. These manuals were very well written and contain a lot of valuable information. One example of this is the "Hints to Macro Writers" section that I mentioned in a previous blog entry.
- CSAIL Publications: The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) maintains a (free) repository of publications from MIT. If you want to read some of the original papers that led to the LispM, this is a good place to spend some time. (for some examples, have a look at AIM-444, AIM-514 and AIM-528).
- Return of the Lisp Machine on 2005-09-11
- Symbolics domain name is #1 on 2005-01/11
- Symbolics LispM's - What might have been on 2004-06-10
- Lisp and the future of development environments at the EclipseCon conference on 2004-02-05
- What is Lisp best suited for? on 2004/01/28
- The Architecture of Symbolic Computers
- Lisp Lore: A Guide to Programming the Lisp Machine
- The Brain Makers
