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From: dcmartin@vangogh.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Lisp for Sun 4s
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Date: 24 Jul 88 20:58:08 GMT
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In article <88Jul14.084518edt.202@neat.ai.toronto.edu>, lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:

I have no idea about floating point performance, but I think that Franz beat Lucid in the Sun4 benchmark arena.

Both Allegro and Lucid have nice FFI's for the C language (which is all I
have used).

Allegro has support for CLX (XV11R2) and my XCL (XV10R4) interfaces, but
I think Lucid only has support for XCL - I haven't heard anything about a
CLX port, but then again.. I don't hear everything.  Franz also has a
CommonWindows port for NeWS and I think may also have one for CLX.

I often run my LISP on a VAX8600 from my HP bobcat and Franz has a really
nice interface between GNU emacs 18.51 and their LISP.  Let's you run multiple top-level in multiple buffers, and find the code for a function
from the LISP, not using TAGS.  I don't know what Lucid provides.

As for price/quality, beats me.. I didn't pay for my LISPs.  I like Franz
lisp, but then again, I don't use Lucid all that much.  One thing I do like
are the people at Franz and the lack of having to deal w/ both Lucid and
Sun when I want to get an update.

Hope this helps.

dcm
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