* In a message originally to All, John W.F. McClain said:
JM> What "major" applications have been written in Lisp? I also
JM> include
JM> in this category applications like GNU Emacs, that are
JM> written (or
JM> bootstrapped?) in another language but have a lisp
JM> interrupter at
JM> their core. It is not enough to simply have lisp as the
JM> extension
JM> language, large parts of the application have to be written
JM> in lisp.
The Symbolics S-products certainly qualify as a large application
written in Lisp. On a lisp machine, it is a mistake to speak of "an
application". What the S-products do is extend the Lisp machine to
include painting, 3d modelling, animation, and rendering
capabilities. Actually, thinking as an applicationist, it would
qualify as four applications, and a lot of utilities that an
applicationist would probably consider an application. This is good
stuff.
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