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From: kosma%human-torch@STC.LOCKHEED.COM (Monty Kosma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Common LISP: Marketing survey
Message-ID: <9006291700.AA19536@human-torch.lockheed.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 17:00:06 GMT
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Well, I keep hearing about people asking for an amiga CL (very feasible
and desirable with things like 68030's and Arexx becoming widely available),
so I'd like to conduct a little marketing survey.

So, anybody interested in a Common LISP package for the amiga, please 
help me out by sending me some comments.  Here's some suggested topics:

1.  are you intersted?  what would you be willing to pay for a full 
    commercial version?  I'd probably like a distribution structure
    like Matt Dillon's DICE...a shareware version (maybe just an interpreter)
    and a commercial version (with compiler, maybe even CLOS and CLIM ??)

2.  What about CLOS and CLIM?  I'd absolutely LOVE to have them, but how   
    essential are they at this point?

3.  Any comments on developing and marketing this sort of thing?  Anybody
    interested in a joint venture, perhaps?

I think the world of Guy Steele so I'd try to stick closely to CLtL (even
though the new edition is rather huge :-)

Thanks for any replies!

monty
kosma@human-torch.lasc-research.lockheed.com