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Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper

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Subject: Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper
From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Date: 29 Apr 1997 16:02:02 +1000
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
schaffer@wat.hookup.net writes:
>big improvement over Basic and Pascal, and I languages like Lisp were
>always too resource hungry to run on PDP 11s.

When I was a student at Edinburgh we had a Pop-2 system (think "Lisp data
structures (before Lisp had them) with Pascalish syntax") running quite
happily on a PDP-11.  It was *less* resource hungry than the C compiler.

Lisp has been used quite successfully on 16-bit machines.
-- 
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Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.

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