About a year ago the engineering department at the UW tossed out
a 3600. It was immediately savaged by the students, though what they made
of the 36bit memory I have no idea. At any rate, I was able to grab a
bunch of the manuals. The things intrigue me.
Now I've seen the Symbolics Online Museum, and supposedly Symbolics
was bought out of bankruptcy. I'm surprised however to find no other
online presence.
Does anyone know just what Symbolics is actually up to these
days? Are they making machines or just the cards I've heard about for
Macs and Alphas? Also, who in the world is actually *using* Symbolics
products? And last, are they hiring? :)
Is it possible to be in love with a programming language?
Thanks for your help.
--
William S. Annis Programmer
Ofc: 608 262-6163 ·······@neurosim.wisc.edu
Department of Neurology Neurosimulation Lab
Ed Gamble wrote:
>
> William Annis wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to be in love with a programming language?
> >
> Yes, and that language is Scheme.
Draw...
Ed Gamble (······@earthlink.net) wrote:
: William Annis wrote:
: >
: > [...]
: > Is it possible to be in love with a programming language?
: >
: Yes, and that language is Scheme.
*snort*cough*
Yeah. CommonLisp is my first love, but Scheme certainly has
more sex appeal.
It's a shame we can't convince someone that a scheme machine
would be a financial success. Then someone could just take the
BBN/Butterfly CommonLisp implementation (it's in Scheme) and bring it
up to date.
Oh, well. We all have our fantasies.
--
William S. Annis Programmer
Ofc: 608 262-6163 ·······@neurosim.wisc.edu
Department of Neurology Neurosimulation Lab
From: John Mallery
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Common Lisp Web Server (60.57) -- HTTP 1.1 Compliant
Date:
Message-ID: <328BB25A.1514@ai.mit.edu>
Server: A full-featured, production-quality, HTTP 1.1 Compliant Web
server wholely written in Common Lisp is *freely* available from the
following URL at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Information:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/cl-http/home-page.html
Q: Why might you care about this?
A: You might be interested in:
* Minimizing the cycle time from conceptualization to market.
(Cooler than being last to market!)
* Generating all HTML interfaces on the fly.
(Cooler than terabytes of legacy html!)
* Synthesing JavaScript and Java on the fly.
(Cooler than typing it in by hand!)
* Creating 3D VRML worlds on the fly.
(Cooler than learning OpenInventor!)
* Using an extensible presentation lattice
to accept input or present output.
(Cooler than duplicating endless input validators,
and then getting a better idea!)
* Developing complex or advanced Web applications.
(Cooler than serving static files!)
* Creating intelligent, knowledge-based Web sites.
(Cooler than even an "Active-X enchanced" site!)
Language: Common Lisp is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language
that is used to develop and deploy leading-edge applications in
university, government, and business settings. This highly flexible and
evolvable language has been typically used to develop large and complex
artificial intelligence or natural languagge understanding systems.
These kindsof power programming tools are becoming increasingly
relevant for Web developers as ever more is required in ever less
time.
Platforms: The server presently runs with full source-compatibility on
the following platforms:
* Macintosh (MCL - Comes on the CD)
* UNIX (Allegro, LispWorks, Lucid) (Many flavors, including
SunOS, Solaris, SGI, OSF)
* Windows NT (Allegro) (Several new Lisps currently being tuned for
NT).
* Lisp Machines (Symbolics 8.3, Open Genera 1.0)
Additional ports are underway.
Reality: This server was the first known HTTP 1.1 implementation last
August, and has subsequently been through a second release cycle. Also
included in the distribution are a program-level client with 1.0
persistent connections, an HTML parser, and a constraint-based
web walker. Snap up this opportunity now before the next release add new
modules to the learning curve.
In article <···········@news.doit.wisc.edu>, ·······@brain (William Annis)
wrote:
> About a year ago the engineering department at the UW tossed out
> a 3600. It was immediately savaged by the students, though what they made
> of the 36bit memory I have no idea.
Running a 3600 would make your poor. It draws a *lot* of power.
I know someone who has got his one from Hamburg University.
A 3640 is a bit better.
> At any rate, I was able to grab a bunch of the manuals.
The manuals sure look good in your office.
> The things intrigue me.
Rest assured that this stuff will be reinvented a million times.
Since much of the (object-oriented !) OS comes in source you
might be able learn a lot from it.
> Now I've seen the Symbolics Online Museum, and supposedly Symbolics
> was bought out of bankruptcy. I'm surprised however to find no other
> online presence.
Well, they are alive.
> Does anyone know just what Symbolics is actually up to these
> days? Are they making machines or just the cards I've heard about for
> Macs and Alphas?
There is no new hardware (new machines that is) AFAIK. They are working
on a new version of the Ivory-emulation on DEC Alpha
(Open Genera).
> Also, who in the world is actually *using* Symbolics
> products?
DASA in Germany. American Express. Military. White House.
Some Graphics Studios. Some researchers.
> And last, are they hiring? :)
Don't know, but some people worked hard to be allowed to use it.
They had to convince management.
> Is it possible to be in love with a programming language?
Sure. A bit strange, but possible.
Rainer Joswig