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		_19qg on Sept 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people Lisp programming on the Mac was actually great. Apple maintained and sold for a while "Macintosh Common Lisp", which was a lot of fun.

kaveh808 on Sept 18, 2023 [–]

MCL was a delight to program in. Ran in 2MB on my PowerBook 170 and gave high-level support for GUI development.

It lives on a Clozure Common Lisp, though there is no version for Apple M processors. Kind of a shame.

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