rich@eday.pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (Richard Wallick) (09/07/88)
hi I've been assigned to research Common Lisp compilers for the Sun. Since this is my first foray into the LISP world, I'm seeking any and all advice. The only one I've come up with is from the University of Utah. Doesn't anyone have any feelings (good and bad) bout their Common LISP? Are there any other compilers I should check into? Thanks for the assist! -<<O>>- P.S. I'll correlate all responses and post them to net for others.
sokolov@mit-amt (Michael Sokolov) (09/13/88)
Sun distributes Lucid common lisp; I have been using it and it's pretty good; has a good foreign function interface which I think is crucial. But you ought to be able to run just about any lisp you want, I should think. If the utah lisp you are talking about is the same one that HP used to distribute (they have now switched to Lucid) and I think it may be, than I warn you away from it. It has almost no provisions for foreign function calls, etc... MS
chan@hpfcmr.HP.COM (Chan Benson) (09/13/88)
> If the utah lisp you are talking about is the > same one that HP used to distribute (they have now switched to Lucid) > and I think it may be, than I warn you away from it. It has almost no > provisions for foreign function calls, etc... I don't know what the U of U distributes, but their only connection to HP's original Common Lisp is that PSL was used to bootstrap it up. As far as the HP Lisp not having foreign function support, it actually had better facilities than the early Lucid releases for calling other languages from Lisp. You could not however, call Lisp from another language. -- Chan Benson HP Fort Collins