Has anyone had a chance to compare Lucid Common Lisp to Allegro
Common Lisp running on a Sun 3 or 4? I need to know people's
impressions of the advantages/drawbacks of the two dialects wrt each
other.
I have only a minimal interest in speed comparisons. I am much
more interested in people's experiences with things like the
following:
- Difficulties in translating existing Lisp code (not
necessarily Common Lisp) to Lucid or Allegro.
- Bugs - situations in which the implementation is clearly
contrary to Steele.
- Things you needed to do and couldnt, even if Steele doesnt
require it. (Things like ERRSETs and communication with Unix/other
programs, perhaps.)
- The company's responsiveness to questions and bug reports.
- Difficulties in compilation.
- Preferences in debuggers.
I am happy to receive responses from people affiliated with one of
the companies, as long as you identify yourself as such.
Perhaps someone has already posted a comparison of these Lisps and
I missed the discussion. (I was away for a while.) If so, could
someone forward me a copy?
Reply directly to me and, if people are interested, I will post a
compilation of the responses.
Thanx!
Twinerik
From: Daniel Mahler
Subject: Re: Lucid (Sun) Common Lisp vs Allegro (Franz) Common Lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <3875@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
I am currently looking into the same question, so please post summary.
This discussion must have occured before in this group. Does anyone
remember when & is this discussion saved somewhere.
daniel mahler