From: Todd Dowser
Subject: Advice re: LISP interpreters please.
Date: 
Message-ID: <46iru0$8d0@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>
Hello,

I have looked at the faq regarding free implementations of common LISP,
and I am a bit unclear which suits my needs the best.

What I need is a LISP interpretor which runs on a PC (DOS, Windows, or Win95).
I only need the functionality to run interpretively since I am only using it to work 
through exercises from a book, and to write some small experimental programs.  So I
don't necessarily need a LISP to C conversion set-up, or anything like that.  The
important factors are that it should be Common LISP, and reasonably attainable
via internet.

Another option is that I already have an implementation of XLISP for Windows, and
if there were a set of libraries or macros available which made it behave more
like common LISP, that may be enough.

If anyone can offer some advice on what freeware or shareware implementations I 
should be looking at, I would appreciate it greatly.

Thanks in advance,

-Paul Evans
Bell-Northern Research
Technical University of Nova Scotia
From: Dirk Wright
Subject: Re: Advice re: LISP interpreters please.
Date: 
Message-ID: <470a3u$bqb@pioneer.uspto.gov>
Todd Dowser (·······@bnr.ca) wrote:
: Hello,

: I have looked at the faq regarding free implementations of common LISP,
: and I am a bit unclear which suits my needs the best.

: What I need is a LISP interpretor which runs on a PC (DOS, Windows, or Win95).
: I only need the functionality to run interpretively since I am only using it to work 
: through exercises from a book, and to write some small experimental programs.  So I
: don't necessarily need a LISP to C conversion set-up, or anything like that.  The
: important factors are that it should be Common LISP, and reasonably attainable
: via internet.

Try the free CLOS from Franz. It's at ftp.uu.net/vendors/franz/web/, and
it's on thier web site: www.franz.com

Dirk