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From: karl@cgdisis.uucp (Karl Sierka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Reference to 2nd edition Lisp in cl man page
Summary: What is the reason for it?
Keywords: ACL, Lisp, Begginers Reference
Message-ID: <5773@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 89 21:15:17 GMT
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Reply-To: karl@cgdisis.UCAR.EDU (Karl Sierka)
Organization: Climate and Global Dynamics Division, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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Hi. I was wondering why this note was put at the end of the cl man page on
the NeXT. 

     "The online documentation and Common Lisp: the Reference
     assume some knowledge of Lisp.  If you are a beginner, we
     suggest that you learn Lisp from one of the many standard
     texts available.  One very good introductory text is Lisp by
     Patrick Winston and Berthold Horn (2nd Edition, 1984,
     Addison Wesley, Reading MA - be sure to use the second edi-
     tion)."

Why do they recommend that you be sure to get the second edition, and not
the third? Is it because CLOS won't work in Allegro on the NeXT? Or is
just that CLOS does not come with the NeXT? The NeXT comes with lots of other
goodies. Why not CLOS? Will CLUE or CLIM be supported when X11 is finally
released for the NeXT?

		thanks,
			karl

p.s., I am still waiting to hear about third party disks on the NeXT.





Karl Sierka sierka@ncar.ucar.edu or karl@cgdisis.ucar.edu (128.117.24.18)
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