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From: art@teach.dec.com (Think the UNTHINKABLE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: McCauley Software Common LISP
Message-ID: <8812201450.AA10061@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 20 Dec 88 14:50:12 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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	[...Just when you thought it was safe go back on the net...}


	To quote myself:

>	So, fellow LISPers, our favorite computer is still without any kind
>	of decent LISP software.

	To which Peter Yadlowsky replied:
 
>Maybe I don't know what a "decent" Lisp environment is, as I haven't
>been exposed to very many of them. KCL is the biggest I've used.
>However, I think XLisp is kinda nice, especially considering it's PD.

	Before anyone thinks I'm putting down XLISP or Dave Betz's wonderful
	efforts, let my clarify this a bit:

	First, I'd like to see a more or less full implementation of CL on 
	the Amiga. (I wouldn't gripe if it didn't support "~@R" format-strings 
	for example...)  Even better, one that had hooks available for getting
	at all the Amiga stuff.

	Second, I really want a LISP COMPILER; the speed differences alone 
	between an interpreted and a compiled LISP are enough to determine 
	whether that LISP can be used for real development or just for toy 
	systems.  For all it's good qualities, XLISP is still s..l..o..w..

	Both of these criteria are met by LISP systems available for computers
	from the "Typewriter Company" and the "Fruit Vendor" -- in fact, TI
	will soon be releasing a LISP board for the Mac II.  I love my Amiga
	dearly, and I wish that it's potential as a cheap/powerful development 
	tool for AI applications would be recognized.

	Art Baker

	Working for, but certainly not 	| If Wanda Landowska had married Howard
	expressing the opinions of	| Hughes, then been widowed and married
	Digital Equipt Corp.		| Henry Kissinger, she'd be Wanda Hughes
					| Kissinger now.