[SPG_Active_Members] LispKit GNU Pascal Port

[Paul McJones]

Dear Aaron,

I’m the main contributor to the softwarepreservation.org web site (which is owned by the Computer History Museum). I would be happy to host your LispKit work there.  It would make sense to put it either in the “History of Lisp” section (http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/) or perhaps as a new entry under Functional Programming (http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FP) given LispKit's direct relationship to Peter Landin’s ISWIM/SECD work in the 1960s.

It’s interesting that the Software Preservation Group (originally called the Software Collection Committee) was started a little over 10 years ago (late 2003), and its website was launched about 9 years ago (April 2005), but the Computer History Museum still has not publicized its plans for digital archives. There has been encouraging progress, however, with a series of @CHM posts featuring history software, with MS-DOS and Word for Windows as the most recent installments.

If you’d like to follow up, you can email me directly (paul at mcjones.org) — no need to Cc: the mailing list.


Paul


On May 10, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Aaron Gray <aaronngray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Some years ago with the help of the comp.lang.pascal UseNet group I ported the old LispKit source to GNU Pascal. I checked with the authors and put it online and made it available freely as it was in the public domain.
> 
>     http://www.cybercomms.org/LispKit
> 
> I have it on my home server, but would like it to move to a more permanent home.
> 
> So www.computerhistory.org would be an ideal place.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Aaron Gray
>  
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