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Le Lisp
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<h2 id="programming-language">Programming language</h2> <p>It was developed at the <a href="/facts/French_Institute_for_Research_in_Computer_Science_and_Automation/ruIkcapf">French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation</a> (INRIA), to be an implementation language for a <a href="/facts/Very_large_scale_integration/l1Wgqr27">very large scale integration</a> (VLSI) <a href="/facts/Workstation/h5tK4hTt">workstation</a> being designed under the direction of <a href="/facts/Jean_Vuillemin/jUWCvsEA">Jean Vuillemin</a>. <i>Le Lisp</i> also had to run on various incompatible platforms (mostly running <a href="/facts/Unix/0pNL2seI">Unix</a> operating systems) that were used by the project. The main goals for the language were to be a powerful post-<a href="/facts/Maclisp/EI2qXCJK">Maclisp</a> version of Lisp that would be <a href="/facts/Software_portability/tWKVGCBb">portable</a>, compatible, <a href="/facts/Extensibility/AEPWNwxp">extensible</a>, and efficient.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>Jérôme Chailloux led the <i>Le Lisp</i> team, working with Emmanuel St. James, Matthieu Devin, and Jean-Marie Hullot in 1980. The dialect is historically noteworthy as one of the first Lisp implementations to be available on both the <a href="/facts/Apple_II/se82CNvK">Apple II</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> and the <a href="/facts/IBM_PC/yhcJGMPL">IBM PC</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>On 2020-01-08, INRIA agreed to migrate the source code to the <a href="/facts/BSD_licenses/XLtmLp5x">2-clause BSD License</a> which allowed few native ports from <a href="/facts/ILOG/smnFvLJz">ILOG</a> and Eligis to adopt this license model. </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240516052328/www.eligis.com/lelisp">Official Website</a> at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> (archived 2024-05-16), Eligis, for <a href="/facts/X86/Kypq5fgu">x86</a> processors</li> <li><a href="http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/le_lisp/">Le Lisp at Computer History Museum's Software Preservation Group</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/c-jullien/lelisp">Le-Lisp Open Source repository on GitHub</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Chailloux, Jérôme (1983). "Le Lisp 80 version 12" (PDF). INRIA. Retrieved 16 March 2012. <a href="http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/07/01/29/PDF/RT-0027.pdf" target="_blank">http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/07/01/29/PDF/RT-0027.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>J. Chailloux; M. Devin; J. M. Hullot (1984). "Le_Lisp, a portable and efficient Lisp system" (PDF). INRIA. Retrieved 16 March 2012. <a href="http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/07/62/38/PDF/RR-0319.pdf" target="_blank">http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/07/62/38/PDF/RR-0319.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Chailloux, Jérôme (November 2001). Le_Lisp de l'INRIA: Le Manuel de référence. Version 14. Rocquencourt France: INRIA. p. 190. <a href="/wiki/France" target="_blank">/wiki/France</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Steele, Jr., Guy L.; Gabriel, Richard P. (1 March 1993). "The evolution of Lisp". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 28 (3): 231–270. doi:10.1145/155360.155373. ISSN 0362-1340. Retrieved 20 May 2018. <a href="/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr." target="_blank">/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr.</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Steele, Jr., Guy L.; Gabriel, Richard P. (1 March 1993). "The evolution of Lisp". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 28 (3): 231–270. doi:10.1145/155360.155373. ISSN 0362-1340. Retrieved 20 May 2018. <a href="/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr." target="_blank">/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr.</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Méndez, Luis Argüelles (22 October 2015). A Practical Introduction to Fuzzy Logic using LISP. Springer. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-3-319-23186-0. <a href="978-3-319-23186-0" target="_blank">978-3-319-23186-0</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>