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Object Lisp

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Object Lisp was an object-oriented Lisp computer programming language designed by Lisp Machines.

It was seen as a "competitor" to other competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp at around the same time such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics, Common Objects developed by Hewlett-Packard, and CommonLoops in use by Xerox.

References

This USENET post from 1985 discusses it: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=13400015%40ccvaxa

"ObjectLISP User Manual", G. Dreschere, LMI 1987.

This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.