In article <····················@ibmpcug.co.uk> ····@ibmpcug.co.uk (Bill Birch) writes:
>Hello,
> Can anyone refer me to a paper or book about PORTABLE LISP?
>I want to know if there is a subset of LISP that will work on most dialects of
>Common LISP, Cambridge LISP, Standard LISP, XLISP, Scheme etc. etc.
>Perhaps somebody has done a survey to find out what the
>lowest-common-denominator is? I hope it doesn't turn out to be Pure LISP!
>
Actually, LISP is a family of languages. This request is like asking for a portable
ALGOL (what is the lowest common demoninator between Pascal, Algol68, Scheme, ...?).
For single languages (Scheme, CommonLisp, etc) portable implementations exist.
Hope this helps...
-Ken Dickey