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From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Any good LISP compilers out there? --- Thanks!
Message-ID: <14123@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:47:56 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.150347.3439@virtech.uucp>, jcj@virtech.uucp (Jeff Jones) writes:
> 
> jcj@virtech.uucp (Jeff Jones) (That's Me!) writes:
> >A friend of mine is wanting to get involved with LISP on the Mac, and
> >wants to know the Net's attitude about what's good, what's not, if
> >there is anything out there, etc.
> 
> As a short summary, the net.consensus seems to be that Apple's very own
> common LISP (v2.0 now in beta stage) is very good.  It runs under MPW, for
> those of you who would be interested.  A couple of people saw what will be
> the next/newest/latest release at the WWDC, and were suitably impressed.


A small correction, Macintosh Common Lisp is a standalone environment, but
one could call MPW compiler generated functions/code from MCL.

Kent Sandvik