Name: Anonymous 2015-03-21 1:45
I am very grateful that I can use, to my pleasure, two actively maintained ANSI Common Lisp implementations, one public domain, one free software. I program in these implementations using a free software text editor itself programmed in a historically interesting Lisp dialect. The result is a cohesive and comfortable environment for weaving ideas into programs.
I am also grateful that on just one hardware system, I am able to run rich Forth, Smalltalk and Prolog systems. Later in the year I will be adding Erlang to this list. Moreover, I am free from the physical constraints which hampered the use of these systems by the progenitors. In the same vein, I have two excellent free software compilers for C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++. I also have access to a freeware Modula-2 and Oberon-2 compiler.
Finally, I have been able to emulate many different computer architecutres, and run many interesting operating systems. Among the more interesting ones, I have an ETH-Oberon system, and an Open Genera 2.0 system. Sometime soon, I will have a working Interlisp-D environment.
I look forward to many programs being freed from the shackles of commercial licensing, to the resurrection of what was lost from the 80s, and to the death of today's trends to come.
Amen.
I am also grateful that on just one hardware system, I am able to run rich Forth, Smalltalk and Prolog systems. Later in the year I will be adding Erlang to this list. Moreover, I am free from the physical constraints which hampered the use of these systems by the progenitors. In the same vein, I have two excellent free software compilers for C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++. I also have access to a freeware Modula-2 and Oberon-2 compiler.
Finally, I have been able to emulate many different computer architecutres, and run many interesting operating systems. Among the more interesting ones, I have an ETH-Oberon system, and an Open Genera 2.0 system. Sometime soon, I will have a working Interlisp-D environment.
I look forward to many programs being freed from the shackles of commercial licensing, to the resurrection of what was lost from the 80s, and to the death of today's trends to come.
Amen.