Rminnich@udel.edu.UUCP (01/16/87)
Anybody know of a GOOD (e.g. NOT metacomco) Common Lisp for the amiga? I would appreciate any first-hand experiences. Should I even bother trying to run lisp when i only have (realistically) 2 or so Mb? I am going to be putting Karnes slip onto my amiga in the feb/march time frame- unless someone else has done it first. Anybody know? On a related note, is there anywhere on the net that i can ftp make and sample tasking programs? Thanks in advance, ron
miner@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu.UUCP (01/17/87)
In article <949@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> Rminnich@UDEL.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes: >Anybody know of a GOOD (e.g. NOT metacomco) Common Lisp >for the amiga? I would appreciate any first-hand experiences. While I was at the AAAI show in PA last Aug. I talked with a M. Roy Broughton Vice Pres. of Marketing at Act Informatique. They have a product called Le_LISP that they where showing for the IBM-PC and MAC; and apparently the Amiga. Their very colorful brochure mentioned the Amiga in a foot note but not in the main body. It looked like a nice product, was close to Common LISP compatable, and getting closer with each new release. Some features from the brochure: * Large subset of Common LISP, Implemented on a virtual machine, * Le_lisp on MAC is faster then Franz on a Vax/780 (that does not say much :-) * 15,000 functionsl including, real numbers strings, vectors, macros... * Environment includes - Full screen editor (emacs like), pretty printer, full debugger and trace..... And much much more.... I tried to get in touch with the Company once through an answering machine in CA but with no success. I will give the information here, perhapse if a few others inquire the Company will look at the US-Amiga market in a more agressive manner. USA: Act Informatique c/o 3122 A ETON Avenue BERKELEY, CA 94705 - Tel: (415)654-3902 FRANCE: Act Informatique 12, rue de la Montagne-Ste-Genevieve 75005 Paris - Tel:(1)46.33.72.60 UK: Logotron LTD - Dales Brewry, Gwydr St Cambridge CB1 2LJ - Tel:(223)323 656 -- Rich Miner ...!wanginst!ulowell!miner Ulowell, Center for Productivity Enhancement (617) 452-5000 x2693 HAL hears the Amiga9000 series is not selling. "Please explain Dave. Why aren't Amiga9000's selling?" Bowman hesitates, "You aren't IBM compatible."
ee173way@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU.UUCP (01/27/87)
Metacomco Cambridge Lisp 68000 for the Amiga isn't all that bad- if you know Lisp. When I first purchased Lisp, I too thought it was a piece of trash, but as I learned Lisp, the poor documentation, nonexistant features, etc were less of a problem. You can write your own routines (like LET and DO) very easily once you have mastered Lisp. I have used Amiga Lisp in an AI class and Lisp class and it performed quite well. With 1 mbyte memory large programs are no problem... The only other Lisp for the Amiga currently is a Public Domain Lisp, XLisp, written in C, and I think it may include source. Hello Gold Hill? Texas Instruments? Port to Amiga... John 7OHN