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Comment by cannibalXxx

3 days ago

do you already program with this language? what is your paradigm?

“Already”?

This is about a language abandoned 15 years ago!

  • It's buried in the article, but Lush is from 1987!

    •   SN(1987) neural network simulator for AmigaOS (Leon Bottou, Yann LeCun)
         |
        SN1(1988) ported to SunOS. added shared-weight neural nets and graphics (LeCun)
         |   \ 
         |   SN1.3(1989) commercial version for Unix (Neuristique)
         |   /
        SN2(1990) new lisp interpreter and graphic functions (Bottou)
           |   \ 
           |   SN2.2(1991) commercial version (Neuristique)
           |    |
           |   SN2.5(1991) ogre GUI toolkit (Neuristique)
           |   / \ 
            \ /  SN2.8(1993+) enhanced version (Neuristique)
             |     \ 
             |   TL3(1993+) lisp interpreter for Unix and Win32 (Neuristique)
             |      [GPL]
             |        \_______________________________________________
             |                                                        |
           SN27ATT(1991) custom AT&T version                          |
             |        (LeCun, Bottou, Simard, AT&T Labs)              |
             |                                                        |
           SN3(1992) IDX matrix engine, Lisp->C compiler/loader and   |
             |       gradient-based learning library                  |
             |       (Bottou, LeCun, AT&T)                            |
             |                                                        |
           SN3.1(1995) redesigned compiler, added OpenGL and SGI VL   |
             |         support (Bottou, LeCun, Simard, AT&T Labs)     |
             |                                                        |
           SN3.2(2000) hardened/cleanup SN3.x code,                   |
             |         added SDL support (LeCun)                      |
             | _______________________________________________________|
             |/
             |
           ATTLUSH(2001) merging of TL3 interpreter + SN3.2 compiler
           [GPL]         and libraries (Bottou, LeCun, AT&T Labs).
             |
           LUSH(2002) rewrote the compiler/loader (Bottou, NEC Research Institute)
           [GPL]
             |
           LUSH(2002) rewrote library, documentation, and interfaced packages
           [GPL]      (LeCun, Huang-Fu, NEC)
      

      https://lush.sourceforge.net/credits.html

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