KALA%MIT-ML@sri-unix.UUCP (12/21/83)
From: John A. Teeter <KALA @ MIT-ML> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Cambridge MA., December 5 -- Gold Hill Computers Inc., a software company specializing in Artificial Intelligence systems, today announced Golden Common LISP (GCLISP) for the IBM PC. GCLISP is an extensive subset of Common Lisp, the industry standard developed by a consortium of experts from the business and academic communities. GCLISP offers a full range of data types, including infinite precision integers, floating point numbers, arrays, character strings, lists, closures, structures, compiled functions, co-routines, and symbols. GCLISP supports object oriented programming with object definition, creation and message sending mechanisms. The Intel 8087 math coprocessor is used if present but not necessary. Included are over 500 pages of comprehensive user documentation conforming to the Common Lisp documentation standards. On-line documentation and HELP facilities are included. In addition to the Lisp language, GCLISP also supports many programming development aids and operating system extensions. These include: - A full screen intelligent editor - Multi-tasking - A structure definition package (Defstruct's) - Macros and read macros - Program debugging and development aids (Trace, Stepper, Pretty Printer and others) - Flexible memory allocation and garbage collection - Stream Oriented Input/Output The interpreter will be available in March 1984 for $375. It requires an IBM PC with DOS 2.0 or greater, and 256K bytes of memory. Gold Hill Computers will release a compiler in the near future and will support the iAPX286. A series of Power Tools for Programmers are currently under development. These are software libraries that enhance the Lisp system and include graphics, communications, mail, pointing device support, and interface to other programming languages. For questions or more information contact: Gold Hill Computers, Inc. 163 Harvard Street Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 492-2071