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On comp.lang.lisp was an interesting announcment:

A new small lisp interpreter for .NET

http://www.lsharp.org/index.html

After some first reading it seems interesting. Some things are similar to newlisp, others are different because of the target-platform.

Also intersting is:

The LSharp.dll assembly is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License

After dotlisp it is the second attempt to bring lisp to .NET.

Just tried to start it without success.
I get a error complaining about a .NET DLL load problem.
Will try to contact the developer.

Seems that my .NET installation is to old.
Have to download current 1.1 redistributable.

Upgrading to 1.1 solved this problem.

probably off topic ;-)

Richard is stepping down from his post of commenting on all things .NET. In his farewell address, he looks back at some missteps in the development of .NET and offers words of warning about the future of the platform

I see if I can track the article back...
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9211/ddj050201dnn/

Regards, Norman

Thanks for the link Norman.
Interesting reading.
No one can tell the future, it's only good to know that lispniks has a language even on this platform.
On the other side I have to note that a company like autodesk is porting autocad to .NET, where all objects access is done through .NET classes and methods. And unfortunatly it seems that they are not porting their alisp into this world. As someone who is working with this enviroment, I have to keep an eye on technology changes.
;-)

Hello HPW,

You know what the fun part is of it all... we are now 40 years from the start of
programming languages and we are still using Lisp ;-) So i think that programming
another 40 years in Lisp wont harm at all ;-)

Norman.

For interested:

L Sharp 1.2 Released

http://www.lsharp.org/

(Now running on .NET framework 2.0)

For interested:

L Sharp 1.21 Released

http://www.robblackwell.org.uk/