Category Archives: Lispstaub

This paper makes for an interesting read. It tries to explain the failure of Symbolics Inc. in the late 80s by showing how the technological self-love and unfocused marketing approach of the company failed to sustain the company.

I found this paper by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman describing the design of a LISP-interpreting processor (from Jaap Weel). The paper shortly describes a small subset of LISP and a meta-circular evaluator, quickly moving on to describing an interpreter … Continue reading →