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From: eckel@ircam.fr (Gerhard Eckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Please, where is my 68040 Allegro Common Lisp upgrade
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.221551.12466@ircam.fr>
Date: 19 Jun 91 22:15:51 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.121755.27992@engage.pko.dec.com> tenny@ootool.dec.com  
(Dave Tenny) writes:

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> I may eventually shell out for the ACL 4.0 release. But it isn't what I need
> now.  All I need is my basic 3.1 CLTL Common Lisp.  And no, Kyoto Common Lisp
> is not an acceptable substitute.
> 

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Just out of curiosity, why is KCL not an acceptable substitute? I never worked  
seriously with any (ACL & KCL) of them but I might in the future. Could  
somebody point out the differences for me?

Thank you in advance!

Gerhard Eckel
IRCAM, Paris
eckel@ircam.fr