[comp.lang.scheme] Scheme for unix systems

stoler@bleen.gwu.edu (07/19/89)

We are in the process of installing an HP 9000/835se and need to know of
an implementation of scheme that runs on said machine.

We also need to know of implementations that run on a SUN 3/180 and
similar machines.

Public domain implementations that can be ftp'd would be nice but commercial
products are okay too.

Thanks all.

briscoe-duke@YALE.EDU (Duke Briscoe) (07/19/89)

The T language has a Scheme environment which is about 99% compatible
with the Scheme standard, based on my recent experience porting
several thousand lines of Scheme code to the T system.  The quality of
the T compiler is very good, producing code which is comparable in
speed to Pascal and C.  It also adds some useful extensions to Scheme,
including multiple return values, a simple object system, debugger and
inspector, macros, structures, hash tables.  It is available for
VAXes, Sun 3, Apollo, HPs, and both parallel and sequential versions
for Encore Multimax.  According to the information I have from Lisp
Pointers Vol. 1, #6, it is available by FTP from some sites at MIT,
but I just tried there, and I couldn't find it.  Maybe someone else
can give the latest info on how to get it.

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briscoe-duke@YALE.EDU (Duke Briscoe) (07/21/89)

Several people have asked me about the Lisp Pointers publication
which I mentioned in my previous posting.  It is a free publication
which is unrefereed, but usually contains interesting articles.
It is sponsored by various generous companies and organizations.
It comes out quarterly.  According to the information I have,
you can get a subscription by sending a note with your name,
address, and whether or not your name can be released to
a commercial mailing list, to:
Lisp Pointers
Mary S. Van Deusen, Editor
IBM Watson Research
PO Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY  10598

As for getting versions of T by anonymous FTP, I have found out that
they are on trix.ai.mit.edu (128.52.32.6), in the directory pub/t3.1.
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