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Subject: IQLISP
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Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 23:22:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 16 23:22:00 1983
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From:  Richard R. Shiffman <RRS@USC-ISIB>

IQLISP takes 1.4 seconds to calculate 100! by the standard recursive
LISP function. IQLISP has smallp's and bignum's for integers.  The
biggest factorial IQLISP will handle is 706!  I think all the digits
are correct.

IQLISP has a slightly different defining form than MACLISP or
INTERLISP, although every different version of LISP has these
differences.  IQLISP supports LAMBDAs, NLAMBDAs, and MACROs.  The
system has a pretty printer, a structure editor, a debugger package,
and an assembler.  There seems to be the hooks for writing a compiler.
I haven't found out about its FUNARG support yet.

The IBM PC has a big enough address space to make IQLISP really
useful.  The INTERLISP I have for my Atari-800 is just a toy, since
you can't do any serious LISP programming with only 64K bytes.

	Rick