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'''Object Lisp''' was a [[computer]] [[programming language]], a dialect of the [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] language. It was an [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] extension for the Lisp dialect [[Lisp Machine Lisp]], designed by [[Lisp Machines]], Inc. Object Lisp iswas also an early example of [[Prototypeprototype-based programming]].

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'''Object Lisp''' was an object-oriented extension for [[Lisp Machine Lisp]] designed by [[Lisp Machines]], Inc. Object Lisp is an early example of [[Prototype-based programming]].

It was seen as a competitor to other [[Object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] extensions to [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] at around the same time such as [[Flavors (programming language)|Flavors]], in use by [[Symbolics]], [[Common Objects]] developed by [[Hewlett-Packard]], and [[CommonLoops]], in use by [[Xerox]].

Object Lisp was also used in early versions of [[Macintosh Common Lisp]]. There, the user interface toolkit was written using Object Lisp.

==References==

This USENET post from 1985 discusses it: [http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=13400015%40ccvaxa 14 December 1985 net.lang.lisp USENET post about the Common Lisp meeting in Boston, 9-11 December 1985, which discusses Object Lisp]

[http://lispm.dyndns.org/documentation/ObjectLisp-Manual.pdf "ObjectLISP User Manual", G. Drescher, LMI 1985]

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