Old LISP Language used for New Raspberry Pi OS

[securitybreach]

This really doesn't fall into any of our subforums. It's for the Raspberry Pi but it's a new operating system as well so I felt that it deserved it's own thread instead of a reply on the other RPI post.

 

On the scale of awesomeness, writing an operating system ranks near the top for software hackers and ranks just below writing a whole new language. [Lukas F. Hartmann] is reaching for the epic status with the Raspberry Pi operating system dubbed Interim. In an interesting mixture of old and new, it’s written in LISP!

 

LISP (LISt Processing) is the second oldest high-level programming language that received wide-spread usage. The only one older is FORTRAN (FORMula TRANslation), and that is just by one year. LISP is generally associated with artificial intelligence research but it also surfaced as a utilitarian scripting language in various applications like AutoCad. You may have also heard of a more recent dialect, Clojure, which has been receiving a lot of attention.

 

The source code, an image for the Pi 2, and directions for making it all work are available. [Lukas] also describes how to get a new OS up and running on a Pi.

 

http://hackaday.com/2015/09/23/old-lisp-languaged-used-for-new-raspberry-pi-os/

[abarbarian]

Super neat. I love the way he gets the keyboard to communicate and the way it is made too.

[securitybreach]

Super neat. I love the way he gets the keyboard to communicate and the way it is made too.

 

So did I!