johnson@UDEL.EDU.UUCP (10/28/87)
where can i get a copy (of the source code for) NIL (the lisp implementation)? does anyone out there have a small (minimal) fast lisp in C with free or at least royalty-free source code ? thanks, johnson@UDEL
wagner@ROCKY.STANFORD.EDU.UUCP (10/28/87)
>where can i get a copy (of the source code for) NIL (the lisp implementation)? Contact MIT AI Lab, Glenn Burke. That's where I got a copy of NIL from (about three years ago). But... >does anyone out there have a small (minimal) fast lisp in C with >free or at least royalty-free source code ? ...NIL is neither small, nor minimal. At least the version I worked with used to eat up a fair amount of CPU time (especially when I compiled LISP code). I don't know if there is a version of NIL under UNIX, I only know one under VMS. If you are looking for a CommonLISP system which is reasonably small (minimal), which provides the standard language capabilities (CLtL) plus some extensions, which allows for dynamic loading of C modules (and thereby e.g. interfacing to window systems), and which is royalty-free (non-commercial use), I suggest Kyoto CommonLISP (KCL). Read comp.lang.lisp for more details on how to get a copy of KCL (via anonymous FTP, direct order, etc.). Juergen Wagner, (USENET) gandalf@portia.stanford.edu Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA