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LispM Source Released Under 'BSD Like' License

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the stroll-down-memory-tape-lane dept.

mschaef writes "Announced on Bill Clementson's Blog, Brad Parker has stated that he has 'permission from MIT to release all the LISPM source code with a "BSD like" source license.'" Zach Beane has also set up a torrent for easy download.

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  1. BSD like license? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that anything like a death certificate?

    1. Re:BSD like license? by ninejaguar · · Score: 2, Funny
      My wife wondered at my guffaw when that quip caught me by surprise. I then made the sad mistake of trying to explain why a particular joke about software licensing was so funny...I was soon given a sympathetic smile and shown the hand as she quickly walked away saying it was more than she needed to know...sigh. I think my cat's a nerd and would've enjoyed it, but I don't speak cat.

      = 9J =

  2. Lisp? by cdn2k1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does that mean we have to pronounce it as

    Bee - Ethh - Dee?

  3. Let's be orderly now by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny
    Okay, you know the drill. A new story has been released and you're all aching to comment on it without reading the article, so let's get going.

    All "What is LISPM?" comments over on the right.

    "This proves BSD is dying" comments on the left.

    Wordplay that desperately wants to be clever, like "I guess that makes it a 'Bee Eth Dee Licenth'" comments go there by the door.

    If you have read the article, know the history of Brad Parker, LISPM and their involvement in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and have something intelligent to say, then we don't want your kind around here. Slashdot has standards to maintain, you know.

  4. Re:This is News? by Gordonjcp · · Score: 5, Funny

    The permissioned release of 25 year old code is /. news now? This code is worthless IMO

    Just like your opinion. Now get back to work, those burgers won't flip themselves!

  5. Argh! by Brent+Spiner · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know, does anyone still program in LISP (I'm sure some people do (personally I could never get used to its syntax (although I never really tried that hard (I did use it with Autocad (one of the really old DOS versions) for a while))))?

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    Reality test... am I dreaming?
    1. Re:Argh! by RevAaron · · Score: 2, Funny

      Out of that 3%, how much is emacs?

      I'm surprised no one has brought up emacs as an example of a lisp app...

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      Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
  6. SCO needs to be all over this... by bani · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...this is obviously stolen SCO intellectual property.

    I mean if SCO can claim all your ELF are belong to SCO, why stop there?

    SCO needs to start up a Lisp licensing program, it can be as wildly successful as their Linux licensing program.

  7. Somebody had to say it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    (This(truly(is(great news))))

    1. Re:Somebody had to say it... by kaarigar · · Score: 2, Funny

      (great news (is (truly (this))))

  8. Re:Nice... by mccalli · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...they found it on 9-track tapes in the basement.

    ....with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".

    Cheers,
    Ian

  9. Re:cdr cdr car? by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah! This clearly shows that C is superior! At least in C you have superfluous parentheses, semicolons, commas, ...

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    Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
  10. Re:But I thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This distro is JPEGs of the 80-column cards.

  11. Obligatory by Acey · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Thoviet Rutha, LITHP lithenthes you!

    Sorry, it needed to be done. That and a co-worker suggested I post it.

  12. Re:Richard Stallman and the Lisp Machine by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny
    > ...speech by RMS on how the Lisp Machine influenced his decision to start the free software movement.

    I always thought it was pot. Live & learn.

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  13. Re:Newbie here... by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, a Lisp is a speech language as well as a programming impediment.

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  14. Thank Goodness! by leighklotz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I can fix that annoying bug that Symbolics introduced when they changed Zwei to say "is not a defined key" instead of "undefined", so when I press Meta-Symbol-B it will say "Meta-Beta Undefined (doo-dah, doo-dah)" again.

  15. Re:cdr cdr car? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's all well and fine, but let's look at a more common example:

    Common Lisp: 12 punctuation marks

    (tagbody
        10 (print "hello")
        20 (print "world")
        30 (go 10))

    BASIC: 4 punctuation marks

    10 PRINT "hello"
    20 PRINT "world"
    30 GOTO 10

    C: 24 punctuation marks, but you don't even have real line numbers

    #include
    main() {
            ten: printf("hello\n");
            twenty: printf("world\n");
            thirty: goto ten;
    }

    Java: 22 punctuation marks, but you don't even have GOTO!

    public class HelloWorld {
            public static void main(String args[]) {
                    System.out.println("hello");
                    System.out.println("world"); // crap!
            }
    }