jbn@glacier.UUCP (05/05/87)
> Now that there is a Common Lisp >Object System specification... Where do I get one? Incidentally, if you want a Lisp compiler for SUNs with reasonable RAM consumption, consider Franz or KCL. However, they don't have tailfins. KCL has everything in CLTL and almost nothing else; it's a language, not a programming environment. I used to use Franz happily on a 2MB diskless SUN 2 and experienced little paging, but this was UCB's Franz, not Franz Inc's, which is somewhat fatter. None of these seem to have that "run until it needs to garbage collect and then boot" mentality that some Symbolics users favor. One nice thing about having an environment of modest size is that one can start up a new one when necessary. I use "make" and SCCS on LISP programs with KCL, and the makefile fires up a fresh copy of KCL for each compile, avoiding that annoying CL problem of the compile being dependent upon and affecting the state of the environment. John Nagle