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From: malczews@girtab.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: LISP compiler? (really future of MACL)
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Date: 18 Nov 89 19:59:37 GMT
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In article <1659@gannet.cl.cam.ac.uk> jac@cl.cam.ac.uk (John Carroll) writes:
>In article <616@pyuxf.UUCP> asg@pyuxf.UUCP (alan geller) writes:
>>
>>2) Serious rumor has it that MACL 2.0 will support CLOS directly, rather than
>>	by using a generic implementation like PCL.  I applaud this, but I
>>
>>...
>
>Why are people waiting for MACL 2.0 in order to get CLOS on the Mac? 2.0
>must some way off since 1.3 has only just been released.
>
>PROCYON Common Lisp already has a directly-supported implementation of CLOS
>(which is integrated into all the graphics stuff). Procyon's CLOS came out
>in the early summer and they claim it to be fast.
>
>(US distributors are Expertelligence  805 9671797
>Rest of world are Procyon Research Ltd  +44 223 421221)
>
>John Carroll
>jac@cl.cam.ac.uk



Yes, Procyon CL has just about everything, at a price.  It is quite expensive
in comparison to MACL, so some of us choose to wait a (hopefully not too long)
while for MACL to catch up.

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