Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!texsun!pollux!ti-csl!m2!gateley From: gateley@m2.csc.ti.com (John Gateley) Newsgroups: comp.sw.components Subject: Re: Assignment in Ada, etc. Message-ID: <93301@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> Date: 4 Oct 89 23:10:50 GMT References: <6592@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: news@ti-csl.csc.ti.com Reply-To: gateley@m2.UUCP (John Gateley) Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas Lines: 20 In article ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) writes: > >In article <6592@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) writes: > OK, I'm not up on the very latest versions of Lisp (of which I > hear that there are many). How about multitasking capabilities? >trivial and lucid in lisps that support continuations and/or engines. >try scheme, allegro common lisp, symbolics common lisp, or xerox's >interlisp offerings. if you want to play, grab a copy of one of the >pd interepreters from the net. Continuations do not really support multitasking: they merely (:^) represent the flow of control within a single task. However, there are several Lisp's which do support multi-tasking: Bertram Hallam's multi-lisp, QLisp by Gabriel and ?, and others I'm sure. (please forgive inaccuracies in the refs, I am not up to date on the topic). On a more practical level, there are the stack group's of the explorer (probably first done by symbolics). John gateley@m2.csc.ti.com