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From: secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com ("Richard C. Secrist")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: RE: Public Domain LISP for the Apple II
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Date: 7 Jul 89 20:19:12 GMT
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	There is no PD Apple native LISP to my knowledge.  Before
	shareware and what not Apple used to distribute gratis
	a set of programs called the "Apple Software Bank," back
	in like 78-79, that included something called MicroLISP
	written in Applesoft BASIC.  It carried an Apple copyright
	and the guy was going to make a book out of it for Addison-Wesley
	or something, but from what I've been able to figure out it was
	never printed.

	The easiest way to LISP on an Apple is to get a CP/M card
	and use one of several PD LISPs available there: XLISP and
	ILISP are about the best I've seen in PD.  Note that XLISP
	under CP/M is only like v1.4, not the latter versions that
	consume much space.

	Commercially something called APP-L-LISP was produced
	for DOS 3.3, and there is a nice Franz-looking LISP for
	CP/M called Waltz LISP they still sell on Apple CP/M
	media.

	Going into build-it-yourself XLISP was written in C and it
	could be ported.  There are also several LISPs in PASCAL
	under CP/M whose source could be ported into UCSD or ProDOS
	environs.  If you're a //gs you can probably find a recent
	XLISP floating around.  Also, a 6502 version of a small
	LISP was built for the Commodore-64 which might be something
	which would port to a ][-class machine okay.

	Anybody know of a native Prolog for the ][ ?  (Don't laugh --
	they did it on the Commodore-64 !)

	rcs