2023 Medley Interlisp Project Annual Report

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Pretty amazing to use the guest account on https://online.interlisp.org

thanks a lot

https://interlisp.org/software/using-medley/

And installation:

https://interlisp.org/software/

Project:

https://interlisp.org/

Interesting.

I use vim and hence can this run as an external lisp there.

Can it complete enough to run say PAIP, or even quicklisp … can lisp cookbook be used to learn that.

or put it another perspective how it compare Common Lisp from very low level ulisp, ecl or even sbcl.

Or what is the point. Tbh it seems better than mvs3.8 as that is constrained by cannot move on beyond that. This seems promising.

It can run InterLisp-D or Common Lisp.

That said, I would use the Vim bindings with Slime and SBCL. I ran InterLisp-D in the 1980s on my Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine (and I wrote and sold a very pricey software product for it) so I appreciate the Medley project, but if you want to work through Peter's excellent PAIP book, please use Vim+Slime+SBCL.

I think their CL is CLTL1 or 2 and I think the nice thing about Medley is the whole graphical system, not the bare lisp implementation (I’m sure you know this, but some context for others who might not be as familiar with the history here)

It's in part the development environment, which started earlier, before it had a graphical display. For example: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/interlisp/Inter...

+1 correct! I loved the UI and libraries like the grapher, etc.

> I use vim and hence can this run as an external lisp there.

I think this, and similar "How do I code my Smalltalk in Emacs?" really misses the point.

Went through the primer. Had a blast. Think I could live in this thing.

I'm having trouble getting this to compile on OpenBSD.

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