Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apple:10824 comp.lang.lisp:1540 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!rutgers!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!rat From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Source to Lisp in C or pascal Keywords: Lisp, C Message-ID: <539@madnix.UUCP> Date: 10 Mar 89 04:35:21 GMT References: <1029@blake.acs.washington.edu> <850@n8emr.UUCP> Reply-To: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt) Distribution: na Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI Lines: 33 In article <850@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes: | | One of the most disappointing areas in the Apple II world is its minimal | software development environment. For the whole Apple II line, only 1 C | compiler and a number of assembers are available - well, I dont know if | Pecan Systems is selling for the non-apple IIgs arena, but if so, that company | may provide a few other languages. I thought they (Pecan) were selling languages for Apple IIe/IIc's, and CP/M. | On the other hand, looking at the Amiga/Atari/Mac/IBM PC arena there | are dozens, if not hundreds, of programming languages to chose from, | including smalltalk, lisp, actor, etc. I agree - Apple II development is pitiful. But there are SOME notable exceptions: Kyan Pascal and ZBASIC to name two. | Perhaps someone with more ambition than brains would | like to take a crack at porting xlisp (should be available from a ftp site | near you - the only place I could guess would be uunet) from ms-dos to prodos? XLISP should also be available from SIMTEL20 in its MSDOS archives. Why doesn't someone try to port Small-C to Prodos? I've thought about it once or twice myself, but you know how those large programming projects tend to grow on you. [david] -- ======== David Douthitt :::: Madison, WI :::: The Stainless Steel Rat ======== FidoNet: 1:121/2 ::::: WittiNet: "Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice." :::::: UseNet: ...{rutgers|ucbvax|harvard}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!rat ArpaNet: madnix!rat@cs.wisc.edu {decvax|att}!