Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!apple!malcolm
From: malcolm@Apple.COM (Malcolm Slaney)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Procyon old rumors [was: Re: lisp for the macIIx]
Keywords: macII, lisp
Message-ID: <27289@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 89 20:19:45 GMT
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In article <875@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Flash Sheridan writes:
[Talking about Procyon Common Lisp....]
>I saw a beta copy from a year or so back.  It's produced by a
>Cambridge England firm, I think.  The beta wouldn't run on my II.

Does anybody have anything good to say about Procyon Common Lisp for the Mac?  
I haven't heard anything but when I was at MacWorld I was impressed that they 
were supporting their own version of the Common Lisp Object Standard (CLOS) 
and my quick and dirty floating point benchmark ran slighly faster than Coral.  
As far as I know there is no other vendor who is officially supporting CLOS
(I guess its hard to compete with Gregor's great efforts) and floating point
speed is critical to my application.

I've got multiple megabytes of Symbolics signal processing code that has 
been cleaned up and ported to lots of different machines.  Before I spend
$1500 on the Procyon product I'd kind of like to know what I'm getting
myself into.

DISCLAIMER....I'm just a lisp user here at Apple and I have nothing to
do with any lisp product stuff.

Thanks.

						Malcolm Slaney
						ATG Speech and Hearing
						malcolm@apple.com