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		waynecochran on June 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (2002) If he had used Lisp how would he have ported it to so many machines? I programmed in Common Lisp quite a bit in grad school and I liked it, but it was always on a specific platform. I would use Lisp even now, but I'll often use C/C++ just because I know I can get it to work most everywhere.

_ph_ on June 29, 2015 [–]

SBCL runs pretty much everywhere: http://sbcl.org/platform-table.html

rjsw on June 29, 2015 | [–]

It didn't when Mathematica was being developed. CMUCL on i386 wasn't released until 1996.

Kyoto Common Lisp was available in the late 80s and was fairly portable since it compiles to C.

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