Le Lisp
Le Lisp (also Le_Lisp and Le-Lisp) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp.[1][2][3]
| Paradigms | Multi-paradigm: functional, procedural, reflective, meta |
|---|---|
| Family | Lisp |
| Designed by | Jérôme Chailloux Emmanuel St. James Matthieu Devin Jean-Marie Hullot |
| Developer | French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) |
| First appeared | 1981 |
| Stable release | 15.26.13
/ 8 January 2020 |
| Implementation language | C, LLM3, Le Lisp |
| Platform | Exormacs, VAX, 68000, Apple II series, IBM PC, IBM 3081, PerkinElmer 32, x86, SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha |
| OS | VERSAdos, CP/M, OpenVMS Windows, Unix, Linux, Classic Mac OS, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX |
| License | Proprietary until 2020, 2-clause BSD License since 2020 |
| Website | www |
| Influenced by | |
| Lisp | |
| Influenced | |
| ISLISP, OpenLisp | |
It was developed at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), to be an implementation language for a very large scale integration (VLSI) workstation being designed under the direction of Jean Vuillemin. Le Lisp also had to run on various incompatible platforms (mostly running Unix operating systems) that were used by the project. The main goals for the language were to be a powerful post-Maclisp version of Lisp that would be portable, compatible, extensible, and efficient.[4]
Jérôme Chailloux led the Le Lisp team, working with Emmanuel St. James, Matthieu Devin, and Jean-Marie Hullot in 1980. The dialect is historically noteworthy as one of the first Lisp implementations to be available on both the Apple II[4] and the IBM PC.[5]
On 2020-01-08, INRIA agreed to migrate the source code to the 2-clause BSD License which allowed few native ports from ILOG and Eligis to adopt this license model.
References
- Chailloux, Jérôme (1983). "Le Lisp 80 version 12" (PDF). INRIA. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- J. Chailloux; M. Devin; J. M. Hullot (1984). "Le_Lisp, a portable and efficient Lisp system" (PDF). INRIA. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- Chailloux, Jérôme (November 2001). Le_Lisp de l'INRIA: Le Manuel de référence. Version 14. Rocquencourt France: INRIA. p. 190.
- Steele, Jr., Guy L.; Gabriel, Richard P. (1 March 1993). "The evolution of Lisp". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 28 (3): 231–270. doi:10.1145/155360.155373. ISSN 0362-1340. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- Méndez, Luis Argüelles (22 October 2015). A Practical Introduction to Fuzzy Logic using LISP. Springer. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-3-319-23186-0.
External links
- Official website, Eligis, for x86 processors
- Le Lisp at Computer History Museum's Software Preservation Group
- Le-Lisp Open Source repository on GitHub
This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.
