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Subject: Re: Lisp for the Amiga
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Date: Thu, 29-May-86 00:18:37 EDT
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>Has anyone out there used the AmigaLisp package?
>What's AmigaLisp like?  Is it similar to Common Lisp...

AmigaLisp is simply Cambridge 68000 lisp running on the Amiga.
It was written for the 68000 processor, and no effort at all has been
put into customizing it for the Amiga.  It has no concept of graphics,
windows, multiple processes, or sound i/o.  The documentation of the
"exec" and "call-library" fns is completely incorrect; it doesn't even
specify the correct number of arguments to those functions.  The
default reader syntax makes the dash a special character which needs to
be escaped (i.e. you must type call!-library); this despite the fact
that the names of half the system functions include the dash
(excruciatingly stupid decision).
On the up side, the compiler is at least smart enough to optimize out
tail-recursion, and the executeable code is fast.  The lisp is actually
based on PSL (Portable Standard Lisp), and is dynamically scoped.
All in all, one of the more disappointing pieces of software available
for the Amiga, and that's really saying something...
			Marty Kent