Medley Interlisp

Hello, Hacker Ladies and Gentlemen!

After a long hiatus, I invite you to an exciting meeting of BALISP, the Bay Area Lisp and Scheme Users Group. Please join us for a special talk on the Medley Interlisp project, which started at Xerox PARC in the 1970s and continues today, running on modern hardware and in the cloud. Larry Masinter and his colleagues on the project will tell us about the history of Interlisp, unique ideas from the project, and their plans for its future. There will be demos.

We'll meet at 3pm on Saturday, March 18th. Larry will be presenting via Zoom (link). I'll be showing the presentation on the big screen in the classroom at Hacker Dojo, which is back in Mountain View (855 Maude Ave.). There will be Q&A. Please join us in person if you can.

After the talk, we'll mingle and have snacks.

If you'd like to read about the project in advance, take a look:

The Interlisp Programming Environment, April 1981 (PDF, IEEE link)

From interlisp.org:

> Interlisp is a software development environment, originating from Xerox PARC in the 1970s and 1980s, supporting software research in AI, computational linguistics, graphical user interfaces, hypertext, and other research areas. Software development in Interlisp-D is a different experience than is common, even today. The features of structure editing, source code management, code analysis and cross-referencing combined to support rapid incremental development. The 1992 ACM Software System Award was awarded to the Interlisp system for pioneering work in programming environments.