Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!know!samsung!xylogics!merk!alliant!linus!sdl From: sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Common LISP: Marketing survey Message-ID: Date: 2 Jul 90 15:59:40 GMT References: <9006291700.AA19536@human-torch.lockheed.com> Sender: usenet@linus.mitre.org Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 54 In-reply-to: kosma%human-torch@STC.LOCKHEED.COM's message of 29 Jun 90 17:00:06 GMT In article <9006291700.AA19536@human-torch.lockheed.com> kosma%human-torch@STC.LOCKHEED.COM (Monty Kosma) writes: > 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 ??) I'm very interested. Currently, the only object-oriented programming language commercially supported for the Amiga is C++ (Lattice), and I would definitely prefer CLOS. I guess that $400-500 is about the right price for a Common Lisp product, provided it supported CLOS. While this is more expensive than many other Amiga languages, the market is smaller, and would consist more of professional scientists and engineers whose companies can afford to pay. This also compares with $495 for Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp, from APDA. > 2. What about CLOS and CLIM? I'd absolutely LOVE to have them, but how > essential are they at this point? I do object-oriented programming a lot and so CLOS would be essential to me. As long as the product supported *some* reasonable interface to AmigaDOS, Intuition, ROM Kernel, ARexx, etc., I would be satisfied (at least for version 1.0 of the product). CLIM would be a "nice to have," perhaps for future versions of the product. > 3. Any comments on developing and marketing this sort of thing? Anybody > interested in a joint venture, perhaps? My company can't do that sort of thing. However, I might be interested in being an alpha and/or beta test site for a Common Lisp product. -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- J. Napier (a.k.a. "The Joker")