masticol@styx.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) (03/15/88)
Thanks to those who answered my Prolog question. I'm also looking for a good Lisp for the Macintosh (Common Lisp, hopefully), with good execution time and a well-thought-out debugger. If you've had _bad_ experiences with any Mac Lisp, I'd appreciate hearing that, too. Please mail me and I'll post the results if there's enough interest. Thanks for your time! - Steve Masticola (masticol@paul.rutgers.edu)
striepe@Apple.COM (Harold Striepe) (03/17/88)
Although a number of Lisps are available for the Macintosh (including XLISP V2.0), the only fll Common Lisp implementation is Allegro CL by Coral/Franz. At $600 it is a bargain supporting an integrated interpreter/compiler, editor, debugger, and full Macintosh toolbox access. It will run on a MacPlus, but serious work requires at least 2mb memory (more is better...). On a MacintoshII features and performance compete favorably with a Vaxstation II running VAX Lisp(unless you need more than 8mb of memory). Harald Striepe Business Development Manager, Artificial Intelligence Apple Computer, Inc. email: striepe@APPLE.COM AppleLink: STRIEPE2
chrstnsn@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (03/19/88)
I am in agreement with the previous response on Allegro CL for the Mac. With 2 megabytes of memory (the minimum I would recommend on a Mac II) it runs most of the usual benchmarks at about 50% or so of a SUN-3/160. It is hightly compatible with the SUN version for non-Mac specific stuff and is very easy to use with a nice set of windows on the Mac. Steve Christensen NCSA, Illinois steve@spock.ncsa.uiuc.edu
marsh@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Ralph J. Marshall) (03/24/88)
In article <49800003@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> chrstnsn@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >I am in agreement with the previous response on Allegro CL for the Mac. >With 2 megabytes of memory (the minimum I would recommend on a Mac II) >it runs most of the usual benchmarks at about 50% or so of a SUN-3/160. >It is hightly compatible with the SUN version for non-Mac specific >stuff and is very easy to use with a nice set of windows on the Mac. > >Steve Christensen >NCSA, Illinois >steve@spock.ncsa.uiuc.edu We are just beginning to use Allegro on Mac IIs, and I'm trying to find somebody who has any experience building large systems with it. I'm particularly interested in any gaps you may have found in the development environment, and how much of a problem the lack of virtual memory may be (we have ordered 8 Megs for each of our machines). Thanks in advance for advice.