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From: steve@siemens.UUCP (Steve Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Re: A Decent Environment. Where is it? (some flame, some advice)
Message-ID: <291@siemens.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 10:01:40 EST
Article-I.D.: siemens.291
Posted: Thu Nov  5 10:01:40 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 10:24:55 EST
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Reply-To: steve@siemens.UUCP (Steve Clark)
Organization: Siemens RTL, Princeton, NJ
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Summary: try Xerox lisp

As long as everyone is plugging their favorite Lisp environment, I have to
throw in my 2 cents.

When I read the original message, I honestly thought the guy was going to
say he had come from the Xerox Interlisp-D environment.  The things he
expected, which weren't there, are what I am used to in the Interlisp-D
environment (with the exception of X, whose implementation in Interlisp
is still in its infancy).

Now for the good news:  Not only has Xerox (finally) come through with
Common Lisp on their workstations (although CL has lots of disadvantages
(and a few advantages) over Interlisp-D), but the latest news is that Xerox
will stop making their own hardware in the next few years, and move all
their great stuff onto SUN-4's.  I wouldn't expect to see anything for at
least a year, and by the time they are ready they will doubtless have gotten
all the great things in Interlisp-D to run in Common Lisp.