A_HINDS%HVRFORD.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (03/16/90)
I'm just learning lisp and I have the Amiga version of XLisp. Unfortuantely, I can't seem to get it to print out my function definitions. It doesn't have (grindef), and I can't seem to get (pprint) to do it either. Can anybody help me out here? Thanks. BTW, how good-bad is the lisp compiler that was sold way back in '84? Are there any lisp compilers for the amiga? Alexander Hinds A_HINDS@HVRFORD
mcdonley@dinl.uucp (alan mcdonley) (03/16/90)
I dont have my functions here at work, sorry. Wanted to comment on AmigaLisp, since I paid $199 for it 5 years ago. AmigaLisp is Portable Standard Lisp, far from CommonLisp or Dec10 Lisp, and far from most any thing else in great use. My apology to the University of Utah (a big PSL user in the past as I recall). Now let me wax on as to the virtues of AmigaLisp. First the compiler. Some years before I got XLisp, I did comparisons against my Texas Instruments Explorer. Wow, The AmigaLisp compiler generates great code! Most functions were about 1/2 the speed of the Explorer but about 10-15% of the intrinsics were as fast (one even faster) than similar intrinsics of CommonLisp on the Explorer. The AmigaLisp Interpreter is extensive and very good also. I no longer use the AmigaLisp package, due to 1: not CommonLisp 2. Books/references/examples are hard to find 3. Xlisp is available I have added alot of CommonLisp compatable functions to my Xlisp environment and can run a lot of CommonLisp code. Good Luck, alan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan McDonley, Martin Marietta Information and Communication Systems (303) 977-3347 mcdonley@inlatlas.den.mmc.com P.O.Box 1260 ncar!dinl!mcdonley Denver,CO 80201-1260 Opinions are my own, not my employer's. --------------------------------------------------------------------------