> It wasn't like Symbolics would start making Lisp machines again anyway, [...]
Sad as it is, but the demise of Lisp machines is a Good Thing. We are now so good in compiling functional programming languages on stock hardware, that special architecture is no longer needed.
For another example the "International Conference on Functional Programming" (ICFP) replaced the Conference on "Functional Programming and Computer Architecture" (FPCA).
Sad as it is, but the demise of Lisp machines is a Good Thing. We are now so good in compiling functional programming languages on stock hardware, that special architecture is no longer needed.
For another example the "International Conference on Functional Programming" (ICFP) replaced the Conference on "Functional Programming and Computer Architecture" (FPCA).