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From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Flavors and the like
Message-ID: <1218@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 15:41:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 31 15:41:08 1987
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Summary: CLOS on Xerox only?

In article <8232@labrea.STANFORD.EDU> kriegs@Whitney.UUCP (David Kriegman)
writes:
>I've heard of something called CLOS but I don't know anything about it.
>Is CLOS similar to flavors?  What else is out there?

CLOS is the Common Lisp Object System being developed by the AI group at Xerox
PARC, sitting on the Lyric release of Interlisp, the Common Lisp version.  As
of the last users' group meeting (at AAAI in Seattle), the Lyric release was
due early August.  CLOS itself, while being demonstrated at AAAI, was not a
released product.  It is written in Common Lisp, and the Lyric release appears
to be a fine implementation, but I haven't done more than play briefly under
supervision, and watch a demo.  Certainly worth looking at, but you'll have to
deal with Xerox directly to find out the availability on 'foreign' common lisp
systems.  E-mail me if you want contacts into Xerox.

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