Views on transportability of Lisp and Lisp-based systems

  • Authors:
  • Richard J. Fateman

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SYMSAC '81 Proceedings of the fourth ACM symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

The availability of new large-address-space computers has provided us an opportunity to examine techniques for transferring programming systems, and in particular, Lisp systems, to new computers. We contrast two approaches: designing and building a Virtual Machine implementation of Lisp, and (re)writing the system in a “portable” programming language ('C'). Our conclusion is that the latter approach may very well be better.