Spice Lisp (Scientific Personal Integrated Computing Environment) is a
programming language
A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Most programming languages are text-based formal languages, but they may also be graphical. They are a kind of computer language.
The description of a programming ...
, a dialect of
Lisp. Its implementation, originally written by
Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Spice Lisp Group, targeted the
microcode of the
16-bit
16-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 16-bit microprocessors.
A 16-bit register can store 216 different values. The range of integer values that can be stored in 16 bits depends on the integer representation used. With the two mo ...
workstation
PERQ
The PERQ, also referred to as the Three Rivers PERQ or ICL PERQ, was a pioneering workstation computer produced in the late 1970s through the early 1980s. In June 1979, the company took its very first order from the UK's Rutherford Appleton La ...
, and its
operating system
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Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...
Accent.
It used that
workstation
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's microcode abilities (and provided microcodes for the languages
Pascal,
C, and
Ada
Ada may refer to:
Places
Africa
* Ada Foah, a town in Ghana
* Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
* Ada, Osun, a town in Nigeria
Asia
* Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, ...
) to implement a
stack machine architecture to store its data structures as
32-bit objects and to enable
run time
Run(s) or RUN may refer to:
Places
* Run (island), one of the Banda Islands in Indonesia
* Run (stream), a stream in the Dutch province of North Brabant
People
* Run (rapper), Joseph Simmons, now known as "Reverend Run", from the hip-hop group ...
type-checking
In computer programming, a type system is a logical system comprising a set of rules that assigns a property called a type to every "term" (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). Usually the terms are various constructs of a computer progra ...
. It would later be popular on other workstations.
Spice Lisp evolved into an implementation of
Common Lisp, and was renamed
CMU Common Lisp (CMUCL).
References
External links
*
*
FOLDOC
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is an online, searchable, encyclopedic dictionary of computing subjects.
History
FOLDOC was founded in 1985 by Denis Howe and was hosted by Imperial College London. In May 2015, the site was up ...
{{Lisp programming language
Common Lisp implementations
Lisp programming language family