You worked on D-machines at Parc? Awesome! For years I had an ‘in love’ relationship with my 1108 Dandeline Lisp Machine. Makes me a little sad to now work in the environment of Databricks and Jupiter notebooks using Python, compared to the 1108 in the 1980s. Oh well!
EDIT: I wonder if we ever met? I used to demo my OPS5 port to the 1108 at conferences in Xerox’s booth.
I'm pretty sure we would never have met as I was on the research staff and only went to conferences like POPL and AAAI/IJCAI.
I agree about Jupiter notebooks; the funny thing is on some HN discussion of them I commented that perhaps their popularity might mean we were back on a path towards lispm kinds of environments -- and the comment was downvoted to oblivion. Hilarious!
I always went to the AAAI/IJCAI conferences back then, and those were where the Xerox 1108 sales team would invite me to do demos. That was so much fun.
I still find Jupiter notebooks painful programming environments, Python kernels at work, Common Lisp + Haskell at home. I should try to be more open minded about Jupyter.
EDIT: I wonder if we ever met? I used to demo my OPS5 port to the 1108 at conferences in Xerox’s booth.