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0 pointsDigitalJack12y ago0 comments

Clojure was initially implemented on cl. You should be able to find the lisp version in the history of the repo somewhere. Might be an interesting starting point.

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arohner12y ago

I'm pretty sure this is wrong.

Rich originally made two other JVM/lisp hybrids, one was running java code inside CL, the other was CL on the JVM. [1]

Clojure originally targeted the JVM and CLR, but AFAIK, one of the main motivators was always to run on a major platform.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfli/

lispm12y ago

He did not made any Lisp/JVM hybrids. More like foreign object interfaces to Java and .net.

One was a Lisp(Works) FFI to Java (jfli) and the other was a generalized version of that (foil).

I have seen too the early sketch of Clojure in CL.

Look here: http://clojure.googlecode.com/svn-history/r454/trunk/src/lis...

arohner12y ago

Right, I didn't mean to imply that jfli and foil were new languages.

I didn't realize there was a CL version of the compiler, cool! Thanks for the link.

brandonbloom12y ago

> Clojure was initially implemented on cl.

Really? I thought Clojure evolved out of Rich's never-finished CL-subset-on-JVM implementation.

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arohner12y ago

I'm pretty sure this is wrong.

Rich originally made two other JVM/lisp hybrids, one was running java code inside CL, the other was CL on the JVM. [1]

Clojure originally targeted the JVM and CLR, but AFAIK, one of the main motivators was always to run on a major platform.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfli/

lispm12y ago

He did not made any Lisp/JVM hybrids. More like foreign object interfaces to Java and .net.

One was a Lisp(Works) FFI to Java (jfli) and the other was a generalized version of that (foil).

I have seen too the early sketch of Clojure in CL.

Look here: http://clojure.googlecode.com/svn-history/r454/trunk/src/lis...

arohner12y ago

Right, I didn't mean to imply that jfli and foil were new languages.

I didn't realize there was a CL version of the compiler, cool! Thanks for the link.

brandonbloom12y ago

> Clojure was initially implemented on cl.

Really? I thought Clojure evolved out of Rich's never-finished CL-subset-on-JVM implementation.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse