Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: Common Lisp on ST
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.122337.10997@doe.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1991 12:23:37 GMT


In <1991Mar12.234639.13565@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, Van Snyder writes:
> Is there a common lisp (preferably as described in CLtL2 by Steele) for the
> ST?  Preferably also one that includes a library aware of AES and VDI.

XLISP is getting closer and closer to Common LISP, although it is nowhere
near Steele's specifications yet (if you have used pre-2.0 versions, look
again!). I used XLISP a lot at v. 1.7, and it was easy to add VDI/AES
to it (just build in low-level functions to access the GEM arrays, etc.,
then build up the interface in LISP); this is presuming that you have
a C compiler, of course.

Another option would be to use it under MGR (where it runs beautifully),
and write the MGR graphic interface entirely in LISP. MGR uses escape
sequences for all of its graphic work, so you would not have to
change or recompile XLISP itself.

I wouldn't flame you unless you wanted to use InterLISP.


David
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