Oaklisp Explained

Oaklisp
Paradigm:	multi-paradigm object-oriented, functional, procedural
Year:	1986
Designer:	Kevin J. Lang & Barak A. Pearlmutter
Latest Release Version:	07-Jan-2000
Latest Release Date:	January 7, 2000
Typing:	dynamic, strong
Implementations:	Oaklisp
Influenced By:	Scheme, T, Smalltalk
Influenced:	EuLisp Java, Dylan

Oaklisp is a message based portable object-oriented Scheme developed by Kevin J. Lang and Barak A. Pearlmutter while Computer Science PhD students at Carnegie Mellon University.^[1] Oaklisp uses a superset of Scheme syntax. It is based on generic operations rather than functions, and features anonymous classes, multiple inheritance, a strong error system, setters and locators for operations, and a facility for dynamic binding.

Version 1.2 includes an interface, bytecode compiler, run-time system and documentation.

References

• Oaklisp: An object-oriented Scheme with first-class types . Kevin J. Lang and Barak A. Pearlmutter . ACM SIGPLAN Notices . 21 . 11 . 30–7 . November 1986 . 10.1145/960112.28701.
• Oaklisp: an object-oriented dialect of Scheme . Kevin J. Lang and Barak A. Pearlmutter . LISP and Symbolic Computation . 1 . 1 . 39–51 . May 1988 . 10.1007/BF01806175. 10.1.1.13.8118 .
• Book: Barak A. Pearlmutter and Kevin J. Lang . Peter Lee . Topics in Advanced Language Implementation . 1991 . MIT Press . Cambridge MA . 978-0-262-12151-4 . 189–215 . The Implementation of Oaklisp . registration .

External links

• Oaklisp homepage

Notes and References

1. Lang . Kevin J. . Pearlmutter . Barak A. . November 1986 . Oaklisp: an object-oriented scheme with first class types . ACM SIGPLAN Notices . en . 21 . 11 . 30–37 . 10.1145/960112.28701 . 0362-1340.