Medley External Weekly @ Wed, June 17, 2026 agenda

[Paolo Amoroso]

Some agenda ideas for the Medley External Weekly @ Wed, June 17, 2026 meeting:

• Knowledge Programming in LOOPS paper by Stefik et al.
• documenting what features of Medley currently work
• live Medley demos for potentially interested users
• roundtable

The latest agenda is available in the shared document. If you have any other items feel free to add them to the document or share them here.

Join the meeting here https://meet.google.com/eyk-bfkj-rvb

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[Paolo Amoroso]

The links we shared in the meeting:

• Knowledge Programming in LOOPS
• Annual Registration Renewal
• muLISP on a DOS palmtop: photo1, photo2

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If memory serves me correctly Microsoft bought out muLISP and rebranded it Microsoft Lisp.
It's odd seeing it branded Microsoft below. (They've got a Microsoft COBOL as well but I'd rather not post unsavory links in a mailing group)

https://archive.org/details/microsoftlisp

Microsoft could have made Lisp a first class citizen the way the did with Basic for years.
What a luxury it would have been if all the BASIC stuff was Lisp instead. (Assuming it wasn't an anaemic "Lisp" like Auto/VisualLISP).

When I was a project manager for FUMICO I'd get very bored and just write Excel tools in VBA, terrible language with terrible bindings.
Granted, there are at least 3 incompatible dialects.
Visual Basic
Visual Basic for Applications
Visual Basic .NET

- Ryan

[pixel...@gmail.com]

Ah, I guess they were a distributor so I misspoke.