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From: mcdonley@dinl.uucp (alan mcdonley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga XLisp and function printing
Message-ID: <1549@dinl.mmc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 90 23:13:24 GMT
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Reply-To: mcdonley@dinl.UUCP (alan mcdonley)
Organization: Martin Marietta I&CS, Denver CO.
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I dont have my functions here at work, sorry.  Wanted to comment
on AmigaLisp, since I paid $199 for it 5 years ago.

AmigaLisp is Portable Standard Lisp, far from CommonLisp or Dec10 Lisp,
and far from most any thing else in great use.  My apology to the
University of Utah (a big PSL user in the past as I recall).  Now let me
wax on as to the virtues of AmigaLisp.  First the compiler.  Some years
before I got XLisp, I did comparisons against my Texas Instruments
Explorer.  Wow, The AmigaLisp compiler generates great code!  Most
functions were about 1/2 the speed of the Explorer but about 10-15% of
the intrinsics were as fast (one even faster) than similar intrinsics of
CommonLisp on the Explorer.  The AmigaLisp Interpreter is extensive and
very good also.  

I no longer use the AmigaLisp package, due to         
1: not CommonLisp
2. Books/references/examples are hard to find
3. Xlisp is available

I have added alot of CommonLisp compatable functions to my Xlisp
environment and can run a lot of CommonLisp code.     

Good Luck, alan


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