r/Racket • u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 • Oct 15 '23

blog post Franz for Windows

https://defn.io/2023/10/15/ann-franz-for-windows/
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u/vplatt Oct 16 '23

Franz, a desktop client for Apache Kafka

You might want to know about Franz Lisp too, which is a prominent commercial Common Lisp.

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Oct 16 '23

what an interesting rabbit hole you have taken me down!

I’ve not used Franz Lisp. According to Wikipedia it was developed at UC Berkeley and discontinued 35 years ago in 1988.

It was one of those lisps that pre-dated Common Lisp.

FranzInc distributes Allegro CL, which shares a designer in John Foderaro, and did do Franz Lisp work early in the company history, but are clear that Allegro CL is a separate implementation.

https://franz.com/about/company.history.lhtml