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sanj on Aug 11, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Doing Personal Computer Software Development in th...

This doesn't ring true to me.

I've never found any reference to VisiCalc being written in Lisp -- there's no reference to that at all in either Dan Bricklin's site or Bob Frankston's site:

http://www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm

http://www.frankston.com/public/?name=implementingVisicalc

In fact, I've heard stories about wrangling assembly code to make it work.

Can anyone verify this?

ken on Aug 11, 2008 | [–]

The above blog post is now #5 on google for "visicalc lisp". If Visicalc was written in Lisp, it's the best-kept secret of the 1980's.

allenbrunson on Aug 11, 2008 | [–]

agreed. the author doesn't sound like a programmer, even. i smell a fake.

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