Object Lisp
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Object Lisp was an object-oriented extension for Lisp Machine Lisp designed by Lisp Machines, Inc. Object Lisp is an early example of Prototype-based programming.
It was seen as a competitor to other object-oriented 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.
Object Lisp was also used in early versions of Macintosh Common Lisp. There the user interface toolkit was written using Object Lisp.
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.