Do you know any place were I can Download a lisp Interpreter (It's
interpreter isn't it?).
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Jorge Adriano Branco Aires wrote:
> Do you know any place were I can Download a lisp Interpreter (It's
> interpreter isn't it?).
Most Common Lisp systems are based on compilers; sometimes they
compile to byte-code (e.g., CLISP), sometimes to C which is then
compiled to native code by calling an external C compiler (e.g., GCL),
sometimes direct to native code (e.g., CMUCL, Allegro CL, LispWorks).
These systems are still interactive, and most (all?) have interpreters
too, for use with certain kinds of debugging.
If you want a free Common Lisp system, your options are:
- Franz and Harlequin (makers of Allegro CL and LispWorks,
respectively) have free versions of their products. See
their web sites: http://www.{franz,harlequin}.com/ .
These are closed-source, commercial products, but their
authors are giving them away.
You can get these for Linux and Windows (not necessarily
the exact same product in each case).
- Corman Common Lisp is another native-code compiler, for
Windows only. It's open-source and comes for free; there's
also an integrated development environment you have to pay
for. I don't remember a URL, but any search engine should
be able to find it for you.
- CMU Common Lisp is available at http://www.cons.org/cmucl/ .
It's open-source (more precisely, public-domain). It won't,
IIRC, run on any version of Windows. It's fine on Linux,
FreeBSD, Solaris, at least.
- CLISP is available at http://clisp.cons.org/ . It's open-source
(more precisely, GNU GPL). It is a rather portable system, and
will run on (at least) Linux, DOS, Win95/98, NT, Solaris,
Acorn RISC OS, Amiga, OS/2.
- GNU Common Lisp is available from any GNU FTP site. I'm not
sure what systems it will run on. It's rather old and out of date;
CMUCL is probably a better bet.
All these implementations have their own strengths and weaknesses,
so it doesn't make much sense to say "Get this one!" about any of
them.
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