@a_cubed @cstross

Back in the 1980s, when my then-office-mate was developing the Japanese product for the Symbolics lisp machine, we had an electronic version of this.

It was a big pad, about 50cm x 50cm, with a stylus to pick out individual characters. This was for kanji; the hiragana and katakana were handled separately.

To watch him use it was amazing... and slow.

#lispm
#lispmachine
#genera
#symbolics

@ldbeth Have you tried to get your hands on the #Symbolics C source code? It compiled C to #Lisp and you might be able to re-use at least some of the front end code.

But it's probably locked in a vault somewhere with the rest of the #Genera source code. Not sure.

@hayley @amoroso #symbolics #genera #lisp #commonlisp Though that was Dynamic Windows. CLIM looked like this:

@amoroso #symbolics #genera naturally also has graph drawing features. Attached screenshot shows a simple example. In the Listener (-> #lisp #repl) I define a new command Show Flavor Tree. It displays the inherited Flavors. Flavors are early classes on the #lispmachine. The Listener is also a drawing plane. The command takes the name of a flavor class, then calls the graph formatter with arguments. PRESENT-FLAVOR prints the flavor and makes it mouse sensitive.

#lisp #commonlisp #lispmachine #genera

Then checking the list of compiler warnings, using the Zmacs command „Edit Compiler Warnings“.

@amoroso #lisp #commonlisp #lispmachine #symbolics #genera
2) I've compiled the LOOP alternative ITERATE (written by Jonathan Amsterdam) on the VLM. It actually works. ITERATE has even more features than LOOP, but uses a more Lisp-like syntax.

In the right X11 window there is a Zmacs and a Lisp Listener. The left X11 window is from the same VLM, but displays the documentation browser in its own X11 window. The documentation content comes from another VLM.

@amoroso
#lisp #commonlisp #lispmachine #symbolics #genera
1) Thanks, I just updated my Genera to the latest release 9.0.6. The installation is slightly unusual. It's a virtual lisp machine (VLM), here running on a Mac with an M1 Pro cpu. UI is via X11, using the XQuartz application. The VLM talks to another VLM on the network, which provides various server functionality. But it also has its own file system, which is actually a Lisp Machine File System (LMFS). -> 2)

@amoroso #genera #lispmachine #lisp #commonlisp

Same for Symbolics Genera:

@amoroso Here's a Portable Genera session on my Linux desktop. Hopefully it will be online soon as well.

The family #Scranciidae has now been updated in the #GlobalLepidopteraIndex and is available in #ChecklistBank.

https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/55434/taxon/235153

This classification should be included in next month's #CatalogueOfLife checklist and then be available to @gbif for organising occurrence data.

22 #genera, 122 #species, 11 #subspecies, 279 names in total:

https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/55434/names?TAXON_ID=235153&facet=rank&facet=issue&facet=status&facet=nomStatus&facet=nameType&facet=field&facet=authorship&facet=authorshipYear&facet=extinct&facet=environment&facet=origin&limit=50&offset=0&sortBy=taxonomic

#lisp #pascal #symbolics #genera #niklauswirth and we can call PASCAL procedures/functions from Lisp

As one can see, the integers in Symbolics PASCAL then are also extended to bignums ...

#lisp #pascal #symbolics #genera #niklauswirth then we can call Lisp functions from PASCAL..

@lispm fine
Is #genera still available to buy? I don’t see any selling information on symbolics site?

#lisp #lispmachine #symbolics #genera #pascal #niklauswirth Niklaus Wirth's PASCAL made it to unusual systems: Here is a screenshot of a Lisp Machine, browsing the original Pascal User Manual and Report, but in a hypertext browser, with a PASCAL implementation loaded...