Pursuant to an earlier thread about Lisp syntax and the numerous variations thereof (mostly RLisp and MLisp), it pleases me to be able to announce that I've been permitted to put GLisp up for anonymous FTP to apple.com.
GLisp stands for Generalized Lisp, and is a system for supporting an arbitrary number of syntax dialects in Common Lisp. GLisp currently supports the normal Common Lisp syntax; PLisp ("Pattern-matching Lisp," a dialect for writing source-code rewrite rules); and "MLisp," an Algol-like syntax.
The documentation is in Microsoft Word 4.0 for the Macintosh, so when you extract it, you'll have to get it onto a Mac and change the file type to WDBN and the file creator to MSWD.
Also, the tar archive was created on a Macintosh, so spaces in file/folder names were converted to underscores. If you're using a Mac, just change them back to spaces. If you aren't using a Mac, you're going to have to edit all of the pathnames anyway.
Speaking of porting, editing the pathnames should be all that it takes--the code is highly portable.
To get the package, FTP to apple.com and look for pub/dts/mac/lisp/glisp.tar.Z
Please send comments, question, etc. to me. It's not my job to support this, so I may not get back to you as quickly as you'd like. I'll do the best I can, though. Sorry 'bout that.
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Paul Snively
Macintosh Developer Technical Support
Apple Computer, Inc.
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Just because I work for Apple Computer, Inc. doesn't mean that I believe
what they believe, or vice-versa.
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From: Paul Frederick Snively
Subject: Re: GLisp Available
Date:
Message-ID: <34997@cup.portal.com>
·····@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
[Comments about two different GLisp systems deleted.]
Yes, it is a shame about name collisions. What's even more ironic is that
the author of the GLisp that I made available notes the existence of the
other GLisp in his documentation, and says that he doesn't think that there
will be much overlap in usage. Oops.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
By the way, for those of you who have had problems properly extracting the
documentation from the archive file, my apologies. I will put up a
separate documentation archive that should be easier to read/print in the near
future. At the moment, everyone in Apple Developer Technical Support is knee
deep in writing sample code for System 7.0, the beta release of which is
imminent (read: days away).
Thanks for your patience!
Paul Snively
Local Lisp Lothario
Apple Developer Technical Support
Apple Computer, Inc.
1st Choice: ················@gateway.qm.apple.com
2nd: ·········@applelink.apple.com
3rd: ·····@apple.com
4th: ·····@cup.portal.com