2024-12-14 19:16 UTC
@sgharms In addition, Medley is pretty much Lisp all the way down. Nearly every single piece of the system, from the lowest to the highest layers, is Lisp and can be accessed/called from Lisp (eg at some point the full TCP/IP stack was written in Lisp).
Whereas on Linux you have a shell language, compilers for various languages, more languages in your web stack, and so on. There's little or no interoperation and data sharing between these languages and the processes they run in.
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@nhbriggs@mastodon.social 2024-12-14 22:38
@amoroso @sgharms "In the old days" - Interlisp-D was Lisp all the way down, until you got to the microcode implementation of the Lisp instruction set. All features of an OS were present - file system, drivers for the hardware like disks, network stack, process management, everything -- was all running, debuggable, changeable in the same space as any other Lisp functions you wrote. "Teleraid" was like remote GDB - reach in and look at/modify a crashed machine, etc.