| Spice Lisp | |
| Paradigms: | Multi-paradigm procedural, functional, object-oriented, meta, reflective, generic |
| Family: | Lisp |
| Designer: | Scott E. Fahlman |
| Developer: | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Spice Lisp Group |
| Latest Release Version: | Final |
| Typing: | Dynamic, strong |
| Scope: | Lexical, optional dynamic |
| Programming Language: | Spice Lisp |
| Discontinued: | Yes |
| Platform: | PDP-10, PERQ |
| Operating System: | TOPS-10, Accent |
| File Formats: | --> |
| Influenced By: | Lisp, Common Lisp |
| Influenced: | CMU Common Lisp (CMUCL) |
Spice Lisp (Scientific Personal Integrated Computing Environment) is a programming language, a dialect of Lisp. Its implementation, originally written by Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Spice Lisp Group, targeted the microcode of the 16-bit workstation PERQ, and its operating system Accent.[1] [2] It used that workstation's microcode abilities (and provided microcodes for the languages Pascal, C, and Ada) to implement a stack machine architecture to store its data structures as 32-bit objects and to enable run time type-checking. It would later be popular on other workstations.
Spice Lisp evolved into an implementation of Common Lisp, and was renamed CMU Common Lisp (CMUCL).