From: Melissa McQueen
Subject: Which Free Lisp
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:08:57 +0000
Message-ID: <3BCA4539.923828FD@mail.utexas.edu>

Does anyone know which lisp is best out of LispWorks, CormanLisp or
Fanz's Allegro CL 6.0? I just need a compiler at home to run basic lisp
programs on Windows 2000 for a college level Common Lisp course. Any
advice would be appreciated. 

Thanks,
Melissa

• Re: Which Free Lisp Vebjorn Ljosa
• Re: Which Free Lisp Karsten Poeck

From: Vebjorn Ljosa
Subject: Re: Which Free Lisp
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:00:48 +0000
Message-ID: <cy3elo5d5m7.fsf@ljosa.com>

* Melissa McQueen <·······@mail.utexas.edu>
| Does anyone know which lisp is best out of LispWorks, CormanLisp or
| Fanz's Allegro CL 6.0? I just need a compiler at home to run basic lisp
| programs on Windows 2000 for a college level Common Lisp course. Any
| advice would be appreciated. 

Any of them will do for that purpose.  Try them all and see which one
you like the best.

-- 
Vebjorn Ljosa

From: Karsten Poeck
Subject: Re: Which Free Lisp
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:45:24 +0000
Message-ID: <9qnhi9$kqe$1@news.wanadoo.es>

Both LispWorks and Allegro CL are brilliant even in the free editions.

LispWorks has a limit on the session (< x hours) x = 4?
ACL has a license that must be renewed every 60 days (no questions asked,
just renew)
Both have a limited heap size although I only managed to reach it by
compiling cl-http in LW.

CormanLisp has a 30 days evaluation period, after that you should register.
Clisp works fine, if you use it from Emacs otherwise it is really hard to
use.

Karsten

"Melissa McQueen" <·······@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
······················@mail.utexas.edu...
> Does anyone know which lisp is best out of LispWorks, CormanLisp or
> Fanz's Allegro CL 6.0? I just need a compiler at home to run basic lisp
> programs on Windows 2000 for a college level Common Lisp course. Any
> advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Melissa