djz@spice.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Daniel Zigmond) (09/21/85)
A guy from Commodore is sending me a copy of Cambridge Lisp 68000 for the Amiga. With luck, it will get here about the same time my developer's package does. As of now I know nothing about this system but if anyone has any questions, I will do my best to answer them when the hardware and softawre arrive. Dan
mwm%ucbopal@BERKELEY.EDU@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (03/07/86)
From: Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer <mwm%ucbopal@BERKELEY.EDU> I bought my Amiga to play with LISP systems at home, and have finally started looking for a LISP for it. I know of two choices: MetaComco Cambridge LISP and XLISP. XLISP follows Common LISP, comes with sources and has a great price; but it's a small, slow LISP. Cambridge LISP has lots of interesting features and a compiler; but it isn't common LISP, and it grabs all the memory it can when it starts. Neither is quite what I want. So, the question: Anyone know of someone working on another LISP for the Amiga? Can you provide pointers? Thanx, mwm@ucbvax <mike
michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael maxwell) (03/13/86)
In article <1457@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> mwm%ucbopal@BERKELEY.EDU@caip.RUTGERS.EDU writes: >I bought my Amiga to play with LISP systems at home, and have finally >started looking for a LISP for it. >I know of two choices: MetaComco Cambridge LISP and XLISP... >Cambridge LISP has lots of interesting >features and a compiler; but it isn't common LISP, and it grabs all >the memory it can when it starts. Neither is quite what I want. Can anyone point me to some info on Cambridge LISP? Like, what structures, functions, macro capability, etc. it has, and how fast the compiled version is. Reviews, books, articles on the net... Thanks! -- Mike Maxwell Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center ...uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!michaelm
djz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (03/27/86)
From: Daniel.Zigmond@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU I reviewed Cambridge Lisp in Vol. 2 No. 1 of AmigaWorld and am currently running a tutorial column on it in Amazing Computing. I don't have the addresses of either of these publications with me (to subscribe or order back issues) but I can post them if people would like. Dan
alco@mit-vax.UUCP (Dave Alcocer) (05/27/86)
Has anyone out there used the AmigaLisp package? I purchased
my Amiga about a month ago, but held off from AmigaLisp until I had
heard more. So far, I don't know of any other Lisp implementation
except for XLISP 1.6.
What's AmigaLisp like? Is it similar to Common Lisp, MacLisp, or is
it some funny dialect altogether? What I'd really like is a version
of Scheme, a rather nifty lexically-scoped version of Lisp. Unfor-
tunately, no such animal exists yet for Amiga (to my knowledge) but
it shouldn't be too hard to build one on top of a nice Common Lisp.
Any review or advice (Email, please) is appreciated. Thanks.
- Dave
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>Has anyone out there used the AmigaLisp package? >What's AmigaLisp like? Is it similar to Common Lisp... AmigaLisp is simply Cambridge 68000 lisp running on the Amiga. It was written for the 68000 processor, and no effort at all has been put into customizing it for the Amiga. It has no concept of graphics, windows, multiple processes, or sound i/o. The documentation of the "exec" and "call-library" fns is completely incorrect; it doesn't even specify the correct number of arguments to those functions. The default reader syntax makes the dash a special character which needs to be escaped (i.e. you must type call!-library); this despite the fact that the names of half the system functions include the dash (excruciatingly stupid decision). On the up side, the compiler is at least smart enough to optimize out tail-recursion, and the executeable code is fast. The lisp is actually based on PSL (Portable Standard Lisp), and is dynamically scoped. All in all, one of the more disappointing pieces of software available for the Amiga, and that's really saying something... Marty Kent