Hello Espen!
Wednesday December 09 1992 09:11, Espen J. Vestre wrote to All:
EJV> I'm teaching a (beginner's) course in Common Lisp. Several of the
EJV> students use xlisp v. 2.1 at home.
Espen, are you and your students aware of the existence of CLISP? It's an
almost-complete implementation of Common LISP that comes in an MS-DOS
implementation, requiring at least a 386SX and 2 meg of RAM. XLISP isn't really
that close to full CL; it's missing things like multiple-value returns and
dynamic scoping. CLISP has all of these. It includes compilation as well as
interpretation, and (oddly enough) is a German product. Also, it's shareware
(free with a recommended 'gift'). Good product.
Bruce
In article <·················@blkcat.UUCP>, ···········@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Bruce Feist) writes:
|> Hello Espen!
|>
|> Wednesday December 09 1992 09:11, Espen J. Vestre wrote to All:
|>
|> EJV> I'm teaching a (beginner's) course in Common Lisp. Several of the
|> EJV> students use xlisp v. 2.1 at home.
|>
|> Espen, are you and your students aware of the existence of CLISP? It's an
|> almost-complete implementation of Common LISP that comes in an MS-DOS
|> implementation, requiring at least a 386SX and 2 meg of RAM. XLISP isn't really
|> that close to full CL; it's missing things like multiple-value returns and
|> dynamic scoping. CLISP has all of these. It includes compilation as well as
|> interpretation, and (oddly enough) is a German product. Also, it's shareware
|> (free with a recommended 'gift'). Good product.
I have to agree on this... personally I use VAXLISP or AKCL, but
I distributed CLIP to several friends of mine and they immediatly dumped
XLISP, and can now work in a full common Lisp environment.
By what I have heard, it is really quite good. And if you find a
bug, let them know by mail, it WILL be corrected.
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