What Was Your First Programming Language?

[Katie Wasserman]

(07-07-2015 01:45 AM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote:  Did you use LISP Machines that were optimized for LISP?

I used UCI LISP under TOPS-20 on a DEC-20 for my thesis work. For my big wall street LISP project I use an HP9000/350 running HP-UX. HP had come up with a really fantastic environment for Common Lisp running in X-Windows. I liked it better than the dedicated LISP machines (Symbolics and LMI) that I tested -- and it was less expensive. The 9000/350 was somewhat underpowered, but good enough for a single user workstation (it had a 68020 running at 25MHz). It had a very high resolution monitor for the time and a mouse -- my first mouse-based program (I had to train the users on how to use a mouse).