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From: mpearson@twilight.gatech.edu (Mark Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: So who's really using LISP?
Keywords: Alive Distributed LISP
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Date: 20 Feb 91 22:10:50 GMT
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I've enjoyed following this discussion.

Just to assure you that LISP is not "dead", we
are currently implementing a LISP programming
environment on top of Clouds, a distributed operating
system in development here at Georgia Tech.

The implementation is written in (C)C++, a Clouds
derivative of C++. In this implementation, instances of
user programming environments and knowledge bases which
encapsulate distinct behaviors are stored as large-grained
persistent objects, enabling many users on many
machines to share these environments and knowledge
bases via inter-environment evaluations. Further, these
LISP objects plug and play with other large grained objects
implemented in CC++ and Eiffel (a heap-based, object-oriented
language).

The fact that a group of Operating System researchers
are interested in LISP, and the things it can do in a
distributed system, should put to rest all notions 
that LISP, and its derivatives are on the way out. 

-Mark Pearson

Mark Pearson, Distributed Systems Group/Clouds Project, College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332-0280 404-853-9390/1
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