From: ยทยทยทยท@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 18:12:02 GMT
I don't think Franz started as a port of MacLisp. After all, what
would it port? The PDP-11 assembly code? PL/1 (from the Multics
version)? (OK, the compilers were in Lisp; but the Franz compiler
looks like a different program.) However, Franz was fairly
compatible w/ MacLisp. It even had "hunks".
I believe one of the main motivations for the development of Franz
Lisp was to port Macsyma. As such, it had to be compatible with
MacLisp. Macsyma actually played a large role in the development of
many of the lisps in the MIT ancestry, e.g. it motivated much of the
early work on ephemeral GC.