EH82SANU@MIAMIU.BITNET (Eric Hilder) (05/04/91)
Hey netters! Can you guys tell me just how good XLisp is on the Mac? Is it as good as common lisp? Just how 'artificial' of an intelligence can you use it for? What are its limitations? Any input is appreciated. Thanks alot. --Eric Hilder eh82sanu@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu ehhilder@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton) (05/05/91)
Eric asks about XLisp on the macintoshes.. I've used XLisp (1.8 or 2.0 - I don't remember) since last summer. It was very simple coding. However, this spring I used it extensively for my AI class. It proved to work quite well, and all Common Lisp I used worked without modification. For the uses, most were straight textbook examples, but other code consisted of typical homework problems. The methods coded were: pattern matching, ISA/HAS relationships, production systems, and possibly a few others. Anyway, I found XLisp to be quite competent for my uses. My professor told me how bad or rather, how limited, XLisp was, but it worked out fine. I did not use any of XLisp's objects or other extended features. Brent Burton n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu
dandrews@bilver.uucp (Dave Andrews) (05/05/91)
In article <91124.043703EH82SANU@MIAMIU.BITNET> EH82SANU@MIAMIU.BITNET (Eric Hilder) writes: >Hey netters! Can you guys tell me just how good XLisp is on the Mac? Is >it as good as common lisp? Just how 'artificial' of an intelligence can >you use it for? What are its limitations? Any input is appreciated. I can't speak for the Mac implementation, but a couple of years ago I was running Forgy's VPS5 under XLISP on an 8MHz AT clone. It was a real bow-wow. Fired a production about once every three or four seconds. But it was fun, and I couldn't beat the price. David Andrews bilver!dandrews
afreeman@cs.utexas.edu (Andrew Charles Freeman) (05/09/91)
(Eric Hilder) writes: >Hey netters! Can you guys tell me just how good XLisp is on the Mac? Is >it as good as common lisp? Just how 'artificial' of an intelligence can >you use it for? What are its limitations? Any input is appreciated. Thanks >alot. I use version 2.0 and like it alot. It runs under MultiFinder, handles objects, arrays, streams, closures, macros and so on. Best of all, it's free and the source code is obtainable. It lacks many Common Lisp functions such as multiple-value-bind, values, and with-open-file, but hey, these are convenience functions anyway, right? The moral is, if you're going to write it yourself, XLISP is great! But don't expect to download AI programs that run in Lucid's Lisp or KCL and run them on your Mac.