From: Reini Urban
Subject: the recent lispwork for windows announce
Date:
Message-ID: <35c89c2e.32676956@judy>
really no opinions on this announcement?
http://www.harlequin.com/news/press/devtools_0798.html
http://www.harlequin.com/products/ads/lisp/
As novice user of cmucl and ACL for windows and other crippled ms-
windows lisps I've tried LWW today. it's also free
(again pissed off as i paid years ago for the now free allegro)
Of course save-image, compiling to stand-alone exe and treeshaking
(delivery) doesn't work on the personal version. as ACL.
I also expected some trivial MSWin32 COM support (parts known as
ActiveX) as nick privately told me. i would need it to drive AutoCAD.
but only the simple dde server and client is implemented.
So it's only partially better than Allegro for Win, not substantially.
sigh :(
but i think you will rather be excited (or pissed off) by the new
royalties for win32. should win32 really rule the lisp world too?
>>>>> "Reini" == Reini Urban <······@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at> writes:
Reini> really no opinions on this announcement?
Reini> http://www.harlequin.com/news/press/devtools_0798.html
Reini> http://www.harlequin.com/products/ads/lisp/
Reini> As novice user of cmucl and ACL for windows and other crippled ms-
Reini> windows lisps I've tried LWW today. it's also free
Reini> (again pissed off as i paid years ago for the now free allegro)
Reini> Of course save-image, compiling to stand-alone exe and treeshaking
Reini> (delivery) doesn't work on the personal version. as ACL.
I think it's good news. I downloaded it but haven't tried out.
One other important point is that the readme says there is a 5 hr
limit per session. After 5 hours, the session is exited. There is a
warning after 4 hrs.
Too bad. I definitely prefer ACL for Linux: the real McCoy without
restrictions.
Ray