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From: chrisr@mntgfx.mentor.com (Chris Rosebrugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Is LISP viable on the Mac?
Keywords: LISP Macintosh development
Message-ID: <1989May22.195611.756@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 23 May 89 02:56:09 GMT
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Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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is there a viable LISP development system on the Mac that one can use
to create an application which isn't gigantic and slow? this isn't cynical,
i used Symbolics 3620s, 3640s, and 3650s for 3 years for development of a
product which was delivered under Franz Lisp on Apollos and vaxes, so i 
love the language and the development environment (at least the Symbolics
one, Franz is pretty minimul) but not the size and speed. 

i have no problem writing Lisp code to be somewhat optimized, etc. so that
it will be of decent speed and limited size, but is the Mac implementation
of Coral/Allegro CL viable for doing such work?  are there other 
implementations of Lisp out there that are any good? what do these cost?
do they do a decent job of hiding some of the pain of Mac development?
do they provide the wrappers for creating Mac applications? is C really
the way to go for this exercise? i just bought LightSpeed 3.01 for sport,
but, boy would i like to return to LISP!

thanks for any info.

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Chris Rosebrugh              | ...!{decwrl,sequent,tessi}!mntgfx!chrisr
Mentor Graphics Corporation  |      chrisr@pdx.MENTOR.COM
Beaverton, Oregon            |   (I'm all by myself in this one.)