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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: GLisp Available
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Date: 3 Oct 90 16:59:28 GMT
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Pursuant to an earlier thread about Lisp syntax and the numerous variations thereof (mostly RLisp and MLisp), it pleases me to be able to announce that I've been permitted to put GLisp up for anonymous FTP to apple.com.

GLisp stands for Generalized Lisp, and is a system for supporting an arbitrary number of syntax dialects in Common Lisp.  GLisp currently supports the normal Common Lisp syntax; PLisp ("Pattern-matching Lisp," a dialect for writing source-code rewrite rules); and "MLisp," an Algol-like syntax.

The documentation is in Microsoft Word 4.0 for the Macintosh, so when you extract it, you'll have to get it onto a Mac and change the file type to WDBN and the file creator to MSWD.

Also, the tar archive was created on a Macintosh, so spaces in file/folder names were converted to underscores.  If you're using a Mac, just change them back to spaces.  If you aren't using a Mac, you're going to have to edit all of the pathnames anyway.

Speaking of porting, editing the pathnames should be all that it takes--the code is highly portable.

To get the package, FTP to apple.com and look for pub/dts/mac/lisp/glisp.tar.Z

Please send comments, question, etc. to me.  It's not my job to support this, so I may not get back to you as quickly as you'd like.  I'll do the best I can, though.  Sorry 'bout that.

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                                Paul Snively
                      Macintosh Developer Technical Support
                             Apple Computer, Inc.

chewy@apple.com

Just because I work for Apple Computer, Inc. doesn't mean that I believe 
what they believe, or vice-versa.
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