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From: rjung@castor.usc.edu (Robert Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: LISP Interpreter ???
Summary: Windowed LISP??
Message-ID: <588@nunki.usc.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 88 06:38:11 GMT
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In article <86@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>> maybe you can just get a copy from him/er (is this legal?)
>
>Yah, it's legal, XLISP is *truly* Public Domain, and all of us who
>want to learn something about Lisp without spending a lot of money owe
>Dave Betz a great thanks.

  Right. Thanks, Dave! (Somebody pass this on)


>Rumor has it Dave and others are working on a new version of XLISP for
>the ST, Amiga, and Mac, that support each system's environment in
>native lisp.  Like windows as objects, and menu events as
>catch-and-throw type messages.  I'd really like to see this!

  No offense to Dave or anything (since I just thanked him), but I'm not
sure if a windowed LISP is a good idea... Or have you never seen ST BASIC?
Heck, the only *really*good* languages I've seen for ANY computer all
don't use windows...


						--R.J.
						B-)

(My goal in life is to make the Atari-dominance of _Blade_Runner_ a
	reality...)
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