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From: jimmyb@hpclsun.HP.COM (Jimmy Benjamin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: HP Common Lisp question (really: foreign function calls)
Message-ID: <640012@hpclsun.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Jul 90 01:29:32 GMT
References: <344@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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Hi Dan,

I'm Jimmy Benjamin, the product marketing engineer for HP Common Lisp.
I read your posting yesterday, and discussed it with our support
organization.  Here is my understanding of the facts:

(1)  You have received an answer to your support question, namely that
     call-by-reference is supported in HP Common Lisp.  HP supports the
     standard Lucid Common Lisp foreign function interface.
 
(2)  This question was received by HP's language support organization
     during the week of July 4th, and was answered early this week.

(3)  The question was forwarded to language support by HP's on-line
     response center, which has maintained daily contact with you
     or your manager since the question came to their attention.

We take our reputation for fine service very seriously, and are anxious
to solve your problems as quickly as we learn about them.  Since I didn't
remember seeing a note about HP Common Lisp from you, I reviewed my notes
hub for your original posting.  I found the 25 June note

 >>  Lucid's foreign function call interf      aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.C <<

a header which wouldn't have struck me as requiring a response from HP.

If you would like to discuss it further, I would appreciate the chance
to understand the steps that led to you to conclude that HP support
couldn't help you.

You may also be interested in our upcoming release 4.0 of HP Common Lisp,
which supports CLOS, a tree-shaker, and more.  It's already out on HP's
Apollo Division platforms, and will be out soon on the 9000's.  Send me
email if you would like to know more.


Sincerely [& with usual disclaimers, I speak for me],

Jimmy Benjamin
Product Market Engineer
HP Computer Language Operation