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From: coffee@aero.ARPA (Peter C. Coffee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: LISP for IBM compatible PC's
Message-ID: <6472@aero.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 18:36:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 23 18:36:46 1987
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Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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In article <1048@sfsup.UUCP> jerry@sfsup.UUCP writes:
>If you were forced to write LISP code on a PC, what interpreter (ie.
>name of product and manufacturer) would you buy?   
>

The February issue of AI Expert begins a three-part wrap-up of microcomputer
LISPs; both the series and I really see no alternative to the Gold Hill
products if you want a quality development environment where the editor
really supports the process. Caveats: dynamic scoping in the PC version's
interpreter, one-dimensional limit on arrays, limited floating-point on the
PC version. The AT-specific version, though, is a thing of beauty that is
making our Symbolics users' eyes bug out.
						Cheers, Peter C.