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From: winkler@harvard.ARPA (Dan Winkler)
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Subject: Common Lisp and Object Oriented Programming
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Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 01:11:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 01:11:40 1985
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Is it possible to use the features in Common Lisp to do object oriented
programming?  I know you can store functions on property lists and
think of the property name as a message and its value as a method, but
that doesn't provide any sort of inheritance.

The reason I ask is that, although I love Smalltalk and would rather
use it, I don't have access to a practical Smalltalk implementation.
We do have Berkeley Smalltalk here on the Suns, but it is really too
slow for serious work.  Besides, what I really want is Smalltalk on my
Macintosh, but the last I heard was you still need a Lisa to run
Apple's Smalltalk.  What I can get for my Mac now is Experlisp, which
is reportedly (I haven't actually seen it) similar to Common Lisp.
Since I think that object oriented programming and packages like
Apple's MacApp are currently the best bet for producing Macintosh-like
programs with a finite amount of effort, I'd like to use those
techniques in a native, interactive development environment and the
only such environment I've heard of being currently available is
Experlisp.

Sorry this query is so confused.  I hope someone can shed some light on
the question.