BEASLEY@EDWARDS-2060.ARPA.UUCP (07/07/87)
If anyone has any information or has heard any information about using XLISP (eXperimental LISP) on the PC, please send me that information at beasley@edwards-2060.ARPA. Thank you. -------
GMCDEH88@IRLEARN (Gabriel) (08/07/87)
Does anyone out there know where I can get the latest version
of XLISP (public domain), at least version 1.4.
Thanking you in advance,
Gabriel.Alessandro.Forin@SPEECH2.CS.CMU.EDU (08/12/87)
You should be able to get a copy of XLISP from the author: David M. Betz 114 Davenport Ave. Manchester, NH 03103 (603) 625-4691 It is nicely small and easily portable to all sorts of machines, but it does not perform very well. I tested it running on a Sun3/160 on Gabriel's benchmarks, and it was roughly 300 (three-hundreds) times slower than compiled CMU-CommonLisp running on an IBM-RT. If it is serious work, have you looked at Kyoto CL ? sandro-
bnevin@CCH.BBN.COM ("Bruce E. Nevin") (01/30/88)
You can get a copy of 1.5 from Public Brand Software (call 1-800-IBM-DISK) for about $5. Oops, that's 1.6. You can get a copy of 2.0 by writing the author, Dave Betz and sending him a formatted diskette and a stamped, self-addressed diskette mailer. His address is 127 Taylor Road, Peterborough, NH 03458. His number is 603/924-6936. He's a real nice guy. Release 2.0 has 1.7 documentation plus update patches that have not been integrated into the document, if you can't live with that then ask for 1.7, or maybe it's 1.8. Actually, that is what he will send you unless you specify that you want 2.0 with the doc as-is. It's ready for release but for that, and I believe is supposed to be full CommonLisp, plus the OO extensions that are after all the main motivation for XLISP. Cheers, Bruce Bruce Nevin bn@cch.bbn.com <usual_disclaimer>