rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt) (07/04/89)
Does anyone know of a public domain LISP for the Apple II?
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[david]
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There is no PD Apple native LISP to my knowledge. Before shareware and what not Apple used to distribute gratis a set of programs called the "Apple Software Bank," back in like 78-79, that included something called MicroLISP written in Applesoft BASIC. It carried an Apple copyright and the guy was going to make a book out of it for Addison-Wesley or something, but from what I've been able to figure out it was never printed. The easiest way to LISP on an Apple is to get a CP/M card and use one of several PD LISPs available there: XLISP and ILISP are about the best I've seen in PD. Note that XLISP under CP/M is only like v1.4, not the latter versions that consume much space. Commercially something called APP-L-LISP was produced for DOS 3.3, and there is a nice Franz-looking LISP for CP/M called Waltz LISP they still sell on Apple CP/M media. Going into build-it-yourself XLISP was written in C and it could be ported. There are also several LISPs in PASCAL under CP/M whose source could be ported into UCSD or ProDOS environs. If you're a //gs you can probably find a recent XLISP floating around. Also, a 6502 version of a small LISP was built for the Commodore-64 which might be something which would port to a ][-class machine okay. Anybody know of a native Prolog for the ][ ? (Don't laugh -- they did it on the Commodore-64 !) rcs