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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Lucid Lisp
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.013147.29369@Think.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 90 01:31:47 GMT
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In article <993@ai.cs.utexas.edu> eilerts@cs.utexas.edu (Erik Eilerts) writes:
>   I just got CLX up and working on a Sun Sparc (after much hard work).  Now, 
>I'm getting ready to port some code from an Explorer to the Sun.  Unfortunately,
>I just noticed that the lisp I'm using, Lucid 3.0, doesn't support flavors
>or methods.  Since my code relies on flavors pretty heavily, this is a
>problem.  I recently heard that Sun's new version of Lucid lisp now supports
>flavors, but I cannot verify this because I don't have a manual.  Also, I
>heard that Lucid Lisp doesn't work on SunOs 4.0.3.  If anyone could tell me
>if these last two statements are true or not, I would appreciate it.

Lucid CL 3.0, which is the latest release, includes Flavors, but it's not
in the default image.  You can load flavors.sbin, or run the lisp-3-0-full
image that Sun supplies (which also includes the production compiler, the
Lucid editor, and the Window Toolkit (a Lisp interface to SunView)).

Note, however, that if you rely heavily on any of the built-in flavors on
the Explorer (such as all the flavors in the TV package) you'll have to do
quite a bit of porting, as none of those flavors exist in Lucid.

Lucid 4.0 (which I believe is still in beta test) will include CLOS, the
Common Lisp Object System, in addition to Flavors.

We've been using Lucid 3.0 in SunOS 4.0.3 with no problems.  It also
seems to run OK in 4.1.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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