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From: nessus@gaffa.mit.edu (Doug Alan)
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Subject: Re: Coral/Franz Extended Common Lisp PRESS RELEASE
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 00:43:57 EDT
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In article <3700@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes:

> I'm not a big Lisp fan, but $400 seems steep for a single-language
> development system on the Mac.  Borland and Think seem to have the
> right idea in pricing between $125 and $200.

> At least it's not the $800 (or whatever it is) for ExperCommon Lisp.
> But $400 is enough to make a guy try Scheme...

[You should try scheme anyway!]

Actually, $400 is quite reasonable considering the quality of this
product.  Running on a Mac II, it's performance is pretty incredible.
Think of how much cheaper it is than a Symbolics machine!

In any case, the people at Coral are going to come out with another
version of their Common Lisp that has a couple features removed
(packages and a couple other things) but costs under $100.

|>oug /\lan