[HN Gopher] LispMe - the Scheme system for PalmOS (2008)
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LispMe - the Scheme system for PalmOS (2008)
 
Author : app4soft
Score  : 60 points
Date   : 2023-01-29 02:08 UTC (20 hours ago)
 
web link (www.lispme.de)
w3m dump (www.lispme.de)
 
| buescher wrote:
| I used it in place of the calculator on mine.
 
| _ph_ wrote:
| This gives me fond memories and actually LispMe turned out to be
| literally life changing for me. Not that I used that app much,
| but as I just had gotten a Palm Pilot 3, I liked playing with it
| a bit. But it triggered my interest into finally learning Lisp
| and Scheme and that had a big influence onto my professional
| career which turned from the prospect being a Java programmer
| into a professional Lisper, which I still am today.
| 
| In my eyes, the Palm Pilot 3 was a really amazing device.
| Portable, long run time and with an 8 MHz 68000 processor up to
| most tasks. A bit a pity, there was not a larger eco system
| around it and it was basically the last of its kind. LispMe was
| very cute, though of course not for larger tasks. Still, as
| written above, quite life changing :)
 
  | donio wrote:
  | I messed around with it a bunch too. It was decently usable on
  | devices with a physical keyboard (Treo and the like).
 
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