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From: hemphill@cs.dal.ca (Gavin Hemphill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: lisp for the macIIx
Keywords: macII, lisp
Message-ID: <3191@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 22 Feb 89 02:14:10 GMT
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Reply-To: hemphill@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Gavin Hemphill)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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In article <848@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> @nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk:flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) writes:
>
>Weird, Procyon is an English firm.  Are Exper just distributing it?
>I'd advise avoiding anything produced by Exper; they're
>ExperCommonLisp isn't Common Lisp, but is a turkey.  Nag Coral [now
>part of Apple] for an upgrade to a IIx version; I'd guess they'll
>have one soon.
>-- 
>From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
>Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
>Portal,MacNet: FlashsMom

Having used both Exper and Coral CL (I sunk almost $1k into Exper before I
gave up and bought CCL) I have to STRONGLY recommend CCL it is truly a full
implementation of Common Lisp (with a version of Object lisp built in) and
runs CLOS just fine.  I use it for doing software development at home which
I then transfer to my Symbolics at work.

There is already an update available for Coral for the IIX -- its version
1.2.2.  I got it by calling the Coral phone number listed in their ads, but
I gather that Apple will be distributing through APDA now, so I'm not sure
how one will go about getting updates from now on.

	G++