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From: wagner@ROCKY.STANFORD.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: NIL (the lisp)
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Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 14:01:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 14:01:45 1987
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>where can i get a copy (of the source code for) NIL (the lisp implementation)?

Contact MIT AI Lab, Glenn Burke. That's where I got a copy of NIL from (about
three years ago). But...

>does anyone out there have a small (minimal)  fast lisp in C with
>free or at least royalty-free source code ?

...NIL is neither small, nor minimal. At least the version I worked with used
to eat up a fair amount of CPU time (especially when I compiled LISP code). I
don't know if there is a version of NIL under UNIX, I only know one under VMS.
If you are looking for a CommonLISP system which is reasonably small
(minimal), which provides the standard language capabilities (CLtL) plus some
extensions, which allows for dynamic loading of C modules (and thereby e.g.
interfacing to window systems), and which is royalty-free (non-commercial
use), I suggest Kyoto CommonLISP (KCL). Read comp.lang.lisp for more details
on how to get a copy of KCL (via anonymous FTP, direct order, etc.).

Juergen Wagner,			(USENET) gandalf@portia.stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA