From: javuchi
Subject: About GCL
Date: 
Message-ID: <1134399748.089785.306210@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Anyone here can talk about GCL?
I mean, real status of the project, ANSI compliance, personal taste
about it, etc etc etc.
Why is so poor refered here?
Is it a good Lisp?
From: Bill Atkins
Subject: Re: About GCL
Date: 
Message-ID: <1134421991.685901.74060@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>
javuchi wrote:
> Anyone here can talk about GCL?
> I mean, real status of the project, ANSI compliance, personal taste
> about it, etc etc etc.
> Why is so poor refered here?
> Is it a good Lisp?

My understanding is that GCL compiles Lisp to code via a command-line
interface, much like GCC.  So you get Lisp, but you lose the benefits
of interactive development.  Also, at least in the past, GCL had some
trouble with its ANSI-compliance.  My understanding could be wrong,
though.

Bill
From: Pascal Costanza
Subject: Re: About GCL
Date: 
Message-ID: <40683jF18vg0iU1@individual.net>
Bill Atkins wrote:
> javuchi wrote:
> 
>>Anyone here can talk about GCL?
>>I mean, real status of the project, ANSI compliance, personal taste
>>about it, etc etc etc.
>>Why is so poor refered here?
>>Is it a good Lisp?
> 
> My understanding is that GCL compiles Lisp to code via a command-line
> interface, much like GCC.  So you get Lisp, but you lose the benefits
> of interactive development.  Also, at least in the past, GCL had some
> trouble with its ANSI-compliance.  My understanding could be wrong,
> though.

The last time I checked GCL had a listener, so you have an interactive 
environment. ANSI compliance is planned for 2.7, but I have no 
information what their plans for a release date are.


Pascal

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Subject: Re: About GCL
Date: 
Message-ID: <1134423579.595594.122810@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
It's good.  I used GCL's ancestor AKCL for years.  For a long time it
was the Lisp for Maxima, the non-commercial version of the famous
computer algebra system Macsyma.  (Today Maxima runs on other Lisps
too.)  One criticism you'll see on this group is that GCL is less
ANSI-compliant than some others.  Search this group for GCL and "Camm
Maguire" for more information.
From: Bernd Schmitt
Subject: Re: About GCL
Date: 
Message-ID: <439de090$0$25032$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de>
javuchi wrote:
> Anyone here can talk about GCL?
> I mean, real status of the project, ANSI compliance, personal taste
> about it, etc etc etc.
Oh, yes, I would like to hear more about this project, too.

> Why is so poor refered here?
I think, one problem is, that there is no slime-support.


Ciao,
Bernd


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