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From: bc@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Status of Allegro Common Lisp?
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Date: 4 Jan 88 06:12:25 GMT
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Reply-To: bc@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (bill coderre)
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The current version is 1.1, and was free to registered 1.0 owners.

ACL runs IN THE BACKGROUND UNDER MULTIFINDER. (As if you had that many
spare cycles! Still, an incredibly useful thing. I now have Lisp and
Telnet both running on my Prodigy. The Mac that's almost a
workstation.)

There is a dialog designer tool, which generates good lisp code for
all sorts of dialogs. You use it sort of like the Resource Editor
dialog designer section. It's still a proto, but pretty darn useful.

Although CLOS is not supported by Coral yet, I believe one could hack
the portable CLOS to run with little or no trouble. This means I think
I saw it done, but I didn't do it. Coral has mumbled that they intend
to support whatever is finally decided upon as the "official" common
object system.

I heard noise that Flavors was being supported, but I'm not sure if it
is in this release or next.

Many bugs were fixed, and a slight reorganization of functions (traps
are now a separate load file, stuff like that, no big deal).

You can always call Coral and ask questions.........................bc