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by GeoJawDguJin 6359 days ago
> Could this be handled by macro programming on a lisp machine?

Sure!

Now all we need is a lisp machine that anyone can run on modern hardware. Any ideas?
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yters 6358 days ago
This guy's trying to write one in Movitz:

http://www.emmett.ca/~sabetts/

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Hexstream 6359 days ago
I'm not sure if you're joking. It has always been the case that you could run Lisp on stock hardware. Lisp machines were just an optimization for back in the day when hardware was slow and Lisp compilation techniques weren't well-known.
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GeoJawDguJin 6358 days ago
I didn't bring up Lisp machines. I'd like to see a Lisp OS of some kind, though.
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