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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.6809,net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: OS9 soon to be available for Amiga
Message-ID: <1048@utai.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 13:40:50 EST
Article-I.D.: utai.1048
Posted: Fri Dec 13 13:40:50 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Dec-85 15:28:06 EST
References: <3555@pur-ee.UUCP> <400@bcsaic.UUCP> <973@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <973@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>
>     Well, yes, there is Lisp.  Public domain XLisp is available from the
>OS-9 Users' Group.  From what I hear it's quite good.  I think it's the

Quite good as an introduction...  It is very clean and porting it to the
Mac was easy. Undergrads actually added Mac windows and menus as bona
fide XLisp objects.

However, I do not see XLisp as a contender for any "serious" work.  It
simply lacks speed and you will get very rapidly tired of having to reinvent
the wheel by writing functions usually available as primitives.
-- 

Jean-Francois Lamy
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal.

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