I would like to get an update regarding current impressions
of Allegro CL and Lucid CL including their associated development
environments. I am particularly interested in:
How reliable is the SW?
What window systems are supported and how well do
work, etc?
How well do the "native CLOS" implementations work?
How faithfull are they to the CL standard?
What support is provided for meta object
programming?
How good has the vendor support been?
What are your impressions of the tools provided by
the development environment?
I would especially like to hear from people who have used
both Allegro and Lucid CL.
Thanks, Please respond via email to:
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On 17 Sep 91 14:27:58 GMT, ·······@acsu.buffalo.edu (Michael Summers) said:
>I would like to get an update regarding current impressions
>of Allegro CL and Lucid CL including their associated development
>environments.
I don't know about Lucid, but I use Allegro on a Sparc a lot.
> How reliable is the SW?
Extremely. I've had no problems with it in months of hard use.
> What window systems are supported and how well do
> work, etc?
Don't know, have just started using them.
> How well do the "native CLOS" implementations work?
It works great. It's built-in, always available, just like "normal"
lisp functions.
> How faithfull are they to the CL standard?
Which standard do you mean exactly? I've found CLtL to be a
perfectly acceptable guide to Allegro. There are some parts of CLtL2
that aren't implemented though.
> What support is provided for meta object
> programming?
I don't know.
> How good has the vendor support been?
Excellent. I generally contact them through the Internet, it saves a
lot of phone-tag. But I occasionally call for urgent matters. I have
*always* email/talked with very knowledgable people. This is a major
switch from many vendors, where the people answering the phones don't
even understand the questions, let alone have an answer.
> What are your impressions of the tools provided by
> the development environment?
Very good. The editor is GNU Emacs, which is a major plus because of
all the libraries and the large use community. GNU Emacs is
integrated with CL very well.
You can contact Franz for more information at ····@franz.com
Mike