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_19qg on Sept 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Brief History of Lisp Machines (2008)

Well, on a Symbolics Lisp Machine you could run Ada, C, Pascal, Fortran and some other exotic stuff. Probably there was an ML for it and I guess you could bring up an early Haskell compiler (Yale Haskell) on it.

DonaldFisk on Sept 28, 2017 [–]

I'm pretty sure Prolog was there too. If I'm not mistaken Symbolics C had safe pointer arithmetic and a garbage collector.

_19qg on Sept 28, 2017 | [–]

Prolog was one of the main language offerings, though it was not statically typed. ;-)

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