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From: kend@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM (Ken Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Portable LISP subsets?
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Date: 11 Apr 90 17:30:28 GMT
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In article <1990Apr10.170254.610@ibmpcug.co.uk> bill@ibmpcug.co.uk (Bill Birch) writes:
>Hello,
>         Can anyone refer me to a paper or book about PORTABLE LISP?
>I want to know if there is a subset of LISP that will work on most dialects of 
>Common LISP, Cambridge LISP, Standard LISP, XLISP, Scheme etc. etc.  
>Perhaps somebody has done a survey to find out what the 
>lowest-common-denominator is? I hope it doesn't turn out to be Pure LISP!
>

Actually, LISP is a family of languages.  This request is like asking for a portable
ALGOL (what is the lowest common demoninator between Pascal, Algol68, Scheme, ...?).

For single languages (Scheme, CommonLisp, etc) portable implementations exist.


Hope this helps...
-Ken Dickey