foo@adelbert6.Stanford.EDU (castor fu) (06/06/91)
Our system administrators announced recently that they were going to begin withdrawing support for ibuki common lisp (because of costs), and advocated using lucid common lisp which they would support. This made me wonder what the relative advantages of the different brands of common lisp available for workstations are. What makes Ibuki preferable to Lucid, (both products), compared to Kyoto CL, which is free? Is it a major question of support availability? Are the main differences in programming environment, or efficiency? Thanks, Castor Fu castor@embezzle.stanford.edu p.s. I don't know anything about lisp, but figured that if I ever wanted to, I wanted to know which systems were preferable.
dkozak@mahogany29.cray.com (Darryn Kozak) (06/07/91)
In article <foo.676225863@adelbert6.Stanford.EDU>, foo@adelbert6.Stanford.EDU (castor fu) writes: > Our system administrators announced recently that > they were going to begin withdrawing support for ibuki common > lisp (because of costs), and advocated using lucid common lisp > which they would support. This made me wonder what the relative > advantages of the different brands of common lisp available for > workstations are. What makes Ibuki preferable to Lucid, (both products), > compared to Kyoto CL, which is free? > > Is it a major question of support availability? Are the main > differences in programming environment, or efficiency? > Thanks, > Castor Fu > castor@embezzle.stanford.edu > p.s. I don't know anything about lisp, but figured that if I ever wanted > to, I wanted to know which systems were preferable. > Some of the attributes to be considered might be: windowing support portability platforms available customer support (quality/cost/methods) method of garbage collection interprocess communication support debug and trace facilities foreign function interface advice facility cost image dumping/size of images Darryn J Kozak Cray Research Park 655F Lone Oak Drive Eagan, MN 55121 dkozak@cray.com (612) 683-5244 ISS (Integrated Support System) Project