davidson@sdcsvax.UUCP (J. Greg Davidson) (04/02/86)
First, let me say a public thank you to David Betz for creating XLISP over a year ago, thus making some sort of LISP available on practically any small machine. Now that I've said that, I want to tell you that the only virtue of XLISP is that it will run on anything. It is slow (being a straight interpreter) and only slightly compatible with major LISP dialects. My favorite LISPs are implementations of Scheme. Some of these implementations compile to native code, but the ones on low end machines typically compile to a byte code, which is then interpreted - this is faster than direct interpretation, but slower than full compilation. After IJCAI I posted a short list of where to find Scheme or Scheme-based LISPs. Its now out of date, but I'll post it again in a followup article. The PC-Scheme from TI is now done, and you can get MIT-Scheme either by FTP from the Arpanet, or from the GNU distribution. Also, there's an Arpa mailing list for Scheme discussion. _Greg J. Greg Davidson Virtual Infinity Systems +1 (619) 452-8059 6231 Branting St; San Diego, CA 92122 USA greg@vis.uucp ucbvax--| telesoft--| davidson@sdcsvax.uucp decvax--+--sdcsvax--+--vis davidson@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu ihnp4--| noscvax--|