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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?

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

    Does that mean we have to pronounce it as

    Bee - Ethh - Dee?

  3. 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!

  4. 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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    1. Re:Argh! by DeafByBeheading · · Score: 5, Informative

      Does this count? Or this? Lisp is a very powerful language. Paren matching is rendered trivial with any decent editor. The syntax is actually quite nice and clean once you get used to it. I wouldn't use it for everything, and it does have some core ugliness (hey, so does C++), but it has an undeservedly bad reputation.

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  5. But I thought... by pmike_bauer · · Score: 5, Interesting
    • Tar file of the tape images, extracted files and extract software, 71Mbytes

    This software was written in the 80s. Back then, all the programmers were supposed to have supernatural abilities and could, like, fit an entire operating system in 640K! What is this??!!! A modern JVM download is only 15MB.
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    I read /. for the (Score:-1, Conservative) comments.
    1. Re:But I thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      This distro is JPEGs of the 80-column cards.