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Comment by kgwgk

3 days ago

“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

    • I love this diagram. Is there a tool that generates such things? Or is there a name for this style of diagram that I could search for?

      My prime use would be generating diagrams of function call chains in large Python code bases.

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