Scheme implementation [was RE: teaching programming to kids - Re: Looking for 8080/Z80 BASIC] - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Jan 2012

From: ben
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:27 AM

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  On 1/3/2012 7:03 AM, Toby Thain wrote: 
...
 > Yeah? Scheme has come in at around forty. And you
don't get much more
> modern than that. 
...
  I thought scheme was written in C. 
SCHEME[1] was written in MACLISP under the ITS operating system running on a
PDP-10.

Who says Lisp isn't good for writing interesting software? ;->

[1] The name was really "Schemer", a follow-on to Conniver which was a
    response to Planner.  Program names are represented in 6-bit packed
    6 per word in ITS.

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