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AskHN: Who here remembers QuickBASIC?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickBASIC



Maybe next someone will write a competing implementation and call it Turbolisp...


Or VisualLisp?

Or would it be VisualLISP?

Oh... Taken. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&...


Quicklisp is a package management system. QuickBASIC was an implementation of BASIC.


I know - I read the article (and I am very fond of package management).

It's just the name. I know it would be absurd for Microsoft to a) resurrect the brand and b) do a Lisp implementation, but, still, in some part of my brain, it did bring back memories.

I think the right analogy would be to Python's "pip" utility.




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