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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Anyone using pcl (clos) under Allegro Common Lisp?
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Date: 30 May 88 15:53:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: mkent@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu's message of 19 May 88 12:44:08 GMT


I've been using PCL (and CLX) a lot lately under KCL on my Encores and
Suns here. I like PCL, it seems to be a very clean design for an
object-oriented set of tools for common lisp, fits into the language
design well.

The only thing I miss is a user's manual tho I assume that one is in
progress, the supplied documentation tends to read more like an
academic paper justifying its features (the supplied reference manual
is ok, but it often just refers back to the first part. Anyhow, the
hard part of mastering something like PCL is not understanding what
the pieces do (at least not for me) but understanding how they are
expected to be used together (nothing deep here, some clever,
extensive, annotated examples might fill the gap.)

At any rate, well done!

	-Barry Shein, Boston University