There are some system utilities written in Lisp by one of the devs, but there is nothing like an OS written in Lisp. It's the same as saying that Linux is written in Haskell because of Xmonad.
And by the way, spreading stupid gossips like this is very suggestive on certain individual's intents.
The main processor doesn’t run an OS in the sense you’re thinking of. The OS is written in LISP and isn’t exposed to developers at this point.
No, but the APIs we’ve got are basically wrappers around lisp, so it would be easy to make one. Just figured the number of lisp coders out there was probably pretty small.
Good to know; I haven't been able to find a lot of detail on the subject of how D-Wave uses Lisp, so I was just repeating what I've heard, which I concede I probably shouldn't have done.
(And I'm a Lisp hacker myself, so I'm not really interested in attempting to further wreck the reputation of that language family; indeed, I'm delighted to see projects like Clojure beginning to resurrect said reputation, and the only way I could be happier about that would be if Clojure did a better job living up to its predecessors.)
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This is FUD.
There are some system utilities written in Lisp by one of the devs, but there is nothing like an OS written in Lisp. It's the same as saying that Linux is written in Haskell because of Xmonad.
And by the way, spreading stupid gossips like this is very suggestive on certain individual's intents.
from 2011
http://dwave.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/learning-to-program-th...
Interesting. I must admit I was badly misinformed on the role of Lisp in this project. My apologies.
The info is pretty sketchy and three years old.
Good to know; I haven't been able to find a lot of detail on the subject of how D-Wave uses Lisp, so I was just repeating what I've heard, which I concede I probably shouldn't have done.
(And I'm a Lisp hacker myself, so I'm not really interested in attempting to further wreck the reputation of that language family; indeed, I'm delighted to see projects like Clojure beginning to resurrect said reputation, and the only way I could be happier about that would be if Clojure did a better job living up to its predecessors.)