On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:09:30AM +0200, guy keren wrote:
and yet - they had to know assembly in order to see how LISP worked from the inside. or are you talking about "LISP machines"?
The Lisp Machine still had assembly. It just had an architecture very designed around running lisp. Type safety and checking was done in hardware, and the register format carried a built-in type tag. And, it was weird in many other ways too :-) Dave -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
