Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fjcp60!winston
From: winston@fjcnet.GOV (Winston M. Llamas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Common LISP: Marketing survey
Summary: Common LISP - it's been a long wait.
Message-ID: <300@fjcp60.GOV>
Date: 3 Jul 90 12:55:12 GMT
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Organization: Federal Judicial Center, Washington, D.C.
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I would definitely be interested in a full Common LISP implementation
for the Amiga, especially if included CLOS (which is pretty much necessary
nowadays anyway).  As important as the language implementation, though, is
the implementaion of the programming environment.  I have Allegro CL on
the Mac and I find that environment to be rather nice, if imperfect.  I
haven't tried Procyon Common LISP yet, though I heard that it is a well
implemented product.

I think a LISP implementation would naturally cost more than other language
implementations for the Amiga; not only is a fully integrated LISP environment
time consuming to develop, but the market for such a product, shall we say,
is not "huge."  In any case, if someone can come up with a nice CL implementaion
on the Amiga, I'd definitely buy it.

Winston