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Lisp Programming on an Atari 2600 (atariage.com)
85 points by reaperducer on July 16, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



I've been fascinated by Le Lisp (https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/le_lisp/), a LISP developped by INRIA in France, which ran on 8080s and Z80s (not 6502).

One of its developers was Jean-Marie Hullot, who went on creating WebObjects at NeXT and inspiring Steve Jobs to create the iPhone.


Jean-Marie Hullot also created Interface Builder, initially in Le Lisp on the Macintosh then rewrote it to work with ObjectiveC for NeXT.


Here is the Lisp version Interface Builder.

https://paulhammant.com/2013/03/28/interface-builders-altern...


That link misses out that it had been developed for Le Lisp before J-M Hullot went to ExperTelligence.


The box art with the astronaut is the cherry on this nerd sundae. Very much in keeping with the "sci-fi novel cover" aesthetic of 1970s-early 80s video game box art (including BASIC Programming).


Retro-lispers might also find this interesting:

https://flownet.com/ron/plisp.html




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