Le Lisp
Screenshot captionAïda running on Le Lisp, Windows version
ParadigmsMulti-paradigm: functional, procedural, reflective, meta
FamilyLisp
DesignersJérôme Chailloux
Emmanuel St. James
Matthieu Devin
Jean-Marie Hullot
DeveloperFrench Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA)
Released1981 (age 45)
Latest release version15.26.13
Latest release date8 January 2020 (age 6)
Programming languageC, LLM3, Le Lisp
PlatformExormacs, VAX, 68000, Apple II, IBM PC, IBM 3081, PerkinElmer 32, x86, SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha
Operating systemVERSAdos, CP/M, OpenVMS Windows, Unix, Linux, Classic Mac OS, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX
LicenseProprietary until 2020, 2-clause BSD License since 2020
WebsiteOfficial Website 16 May 2024 at the Wayback Machine
Influenced byLisp
InfluencedISLISP, OpenLisp

Le Lisp (also Le_Lisp and Le-Lisp) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp.[1][2][3]

Programming language

It was developed at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), to be an implementation language for a very large scale integration (VLSI) workstation being designed under the direction of Jean Vuillemin. Le Lisp also had to run on various incompatible platforms (mostly running Unix operating systems) that were used by the project. The main goals for the language were to be a powerful post-Maclisp version of Lisp that would be portable, compatible, extensible, and efficient.[4]

Jérôme Chailloux led the Le Lisp team, working with Emmanuel St. James, Matthieu Devin, and Jean-Marie Hullot in 1980. The dialect is historically noteworthy as one of the first Lisp implementations to be available on both the Apple II[4] and the IBM PC.[5]

On 2020-01-08, INRIA agreed to migrate the source code to the 2-clause BSD License which allowed few native ports from ILOG and Eligis to adopt this license model.

References

  1. ^ Chailloux, Jérôme (1983). "Le Lisp 80 version 12". INRIA. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  2. ^ J. Chailloux; M. Devin; J. M. Hullot (1984). "Le_Lisp, a portable and efficient Lisp system". INRIA. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  3. ^ Chailloux, Jérôme (November 2001). Le_Lisp de l'INRIA: Le Manuel de référence. Version 14. Rocquencourt France: INRIA. p. 190.
  4. ^ Steele, Jr., Guy L. & Gabriel, Richard P. (1 March 1993). "The evolution of Lisp". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 28 (3): 231–270. doi:10.1145/155360.155373. ISSN 0362-1340. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
  5. ^ Méndez, Luis Argüelles (22 October 2015). A Practical Introduction to Fuzzy Logic using LISP. Springer. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-3-319-23186-0.