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Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Thursday, 4 Oct 1990 19:09:43 EDT
From: Doug Kelly <KELLYDK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Message-ID: <90277.190943KELLYDK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: LISP & the Amiga..
References: <MWM.90Oct2135658@raven.pa.dec.com> <PPHHq2w163w@valnet>
 <MWM.90Oct4113055@raven.pa.dec.com>

In article <MWM.90Oct4113055@raven.pa.dec.com>, mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My
Watch Has Windows) Meyer) says:
>
>In article <PPHHq2w163w@valnet> joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
>writes:
>   > How about a complete modern LISP system based on Common LISP or
>   > Scheme? Complete means it has a compiler that can generate stand-alone
>
>The Scheme is (last time I looked at it) a pretty straight-forward
>implementation of Scheme. If you've got the Abelson & Sussman's
>"Structuer and Interpretation of Computer Programs" and are looking
>for something to use with that, this is the correct choice. It's
>slower than SIOD, but faster than the X* LISPs.
>
>
>        <mike
>
>--


I used XSCHEME for all my programming in a course based on Abelson &
Sussman, and didn't run into any problems.  It also seems to be pretty
fast.  A primes example using streams took about 2 minutes on my profs
Sun 3 running CScheme, but only about 35 seconds on my 18Mhz Lucas A1000.
Unfortunately, it doesn't support Amiga specific stuff very well.
Fortunately, source is included.

Doug Kelly