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From: miller@cs.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: ACL vs. SPE (lucid)
Message-ID: <1990Feb26.183122.13787@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 90 18:31:22 GMT
Sender: miller@cs.rochester.edu (Brad Miller)
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department
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Well, I haven't seen the latest (currently beta) stuff but some quick
off the cuff remarks:

Both vendors seem professional and commited to developing a good product.
Lucids compiler seems to produce faster code. Possibly you are sacreficing
debug, but I haven't worked with them both enough to say for sure.

A big big factor for us: Allegro (Franz) will sell you the source code.
Lucid won't. That pretty much prevents us from getting Lucid. (sorry L/Sun).

We develop too many local debugging hacks to be able to live without
source...