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From: jas@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Jeffrey A. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Beginning Mac Programming - yet again!
Message-ID: <1077@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 16 Mar 88 23:05:11 GMT
References: <3566@super.upenn.edu> <1034@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
Lines: 28
Summary: Yes, post the coral hack!

In article <1034@hqda-ai.UUCP>, arbaugh@hqda-ai.UUCP (Bill Arbaugh) writes:
>      The second system I have used is Allegro Common Lisp
> from Coral.  This is a complete implementation of Common Lisp.  It
> supports the Common Lisp Object System and maybe X windows now
> (I'm checking into that).  The editor is an EMACS like editor.
> The only bad thing I can say about Coral is that you can not
> create standalone applications.  There are ways, kludges,
> that you can use to make it look like a standalone though.  If
> there is any interest I can post the info.  
I'd just like to point out that Coral Allegro Common Lisp does _not_, itself,
support CLOS.  There is a version of Portable CommonLoops, a partial
implementation of the CLOS standard by Xerox, that runs in Coral ACL, but it is
not supported by Coral in any way, nor is there any documentation other than 
the CLOS spec, which is pretty dense and almost totally lacking in examples.

As of a few weeks ago, they are not supporting X windows, nor have I ever heard
them claim they would.  There _was_ some talk of their supporting
CommonWindows (which I assume is a commonlisp windowing package not yet spec'd)
but this would be far in the future.

If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know.



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