Spice Lisp (Scientific Personal Integrated Computing Environment) is a programming language, a dialect of Lisp. Its implementation, originally written by Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Spice Lisp Group, targeted the microcode of the 16-bit workstation PERQ, and its operating system Accent.[1][2] It used that workstation's microcode abilities (and provided microcodes for the languages Pascal, C, and Ada) to implement a stack machine architecture to store its data structures as 32-bit objects and to enable run time type-checking. It would later be popular on other workstations.
| Paradigms | Multi-paradigm: procedural, functional, object-oriented, meta, reflective, generic |
|---|---|
| Family | Lisp |
| Designed by | Scott E. Fahlman |
| Developer | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Spice Lisp Group |
| First appeared | 1980 |
| Final release | Final
/ 1985 |
| Typing discipline | Dynamic, strong |
| Scope | Lexical, optional dynamic |
| Implementation language | Spice Lisp |
| Platform | PDP-10, PERQ |
| OS | TOPS-10, Accent |
| Website | cmucl |
| Influenced by | |
| Lisp, Common Lisp | |
| Influenced | |
| CMU Common Lisp (CMUCL) | |
Spice Lisp evolved into an implementation of Common Lisp, and was renamed CMU Common Lisp (CMUCL).
References
edit- ^ Gabriel, Richard P. (May 1985). Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems (PDF). MIT Press; Computer Systems Series. ISBN 0-262-07093-6. LCCN 85-15161.
- ^ "CMUCL history".