I have done a short search of free or cheap LISP systems for windows and so far I am convinced that these are the best of the common ones. However, I am a little short of understanding the differences. Is Xlisp-PLUS simply an extension of XLISP, and is there any reason to use XLISP instead of XLISP_PLUS. The next questions is why I wouldn't want to use XLISP_STAT which has some nice math extensions. What is the down side to using this enhanced versions? Did I miss a good windows(98) based development system that is free or at least <100$.
Did you check CLISP, POPLOG Lisp or Corman Lisp? All of them purport to conform to the ANSI Common Lisp standard. Also, isn't Raytheon using a commercial Common Lisp environment already?
>>>> In message <387F7923.5D8E0...@raytheon.com> >>>> On the subject of "XLISP, XLISP-PLUS and XLISP-STAT" >>>> Sent on Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:29:39 -0600 >>>> Honorable Robert Posey <mu...@raytheon.com> writes:
>> >> Did I miss a good windows(98) based development system that is free >> or at least <100$.
You might want to consider clisp (http://clisp.cons.org), an ANSI Common Lisp (no member of XLISP family is ANSI), licensed under the GPL.
I work for Raytheon Systems Co. in Tucson, AZ. We use Harlequin Common Lisp at the present time, and we have used Franz in the past. Our group of active users is small (3 of us) and I welcome any interaction on the topic.
David McClain, Sr. Scientist Raytheon Systems Co. Tucson, AZ
Robert Monfera <monf...@fisec.com> wrote in message
> Did you check CLISP, POPLOG Lisp or Corman Lisp? All of them purport to > conform to the ANSI Common Lisp standard. Also, isn't Raytheon using a > commercial Common Lisp environment already?
>I work for Raytheon Systems Co. in Tucson, AZ. We use Harlequin Common Lisp >at the present time, and we have used Franz in the past. Our group of active >users is small (3 of us) and I welcome any interaction on the topic.
The original poster, Muddy, had this in his header: Organization: Raytheon Company and his email was mu...@raytheon.com That's why Bob assumed that Muddy is working for Raytheon Systems but it must have been just a nameclash.
I would get pretty upset if some other company uses our name (x-ray) but it happens all the time :)
>David McClain, Sr. Scientist >Raytheon Systems Co. >Tucson, AZ >Robert Monfera <monf...@fisec.com> wrote in message >news:387F7969.ACE43DCC@fisec.com... >> Also, isn't Raytheon using a >> commercial Common Lisp environment already?
>Last I checked, XLISP was not (yet) a full Common Lisp. You would be >better off with other alternatives.
This depends on your needs. XLISP-STAT is a nice environment, although not full Common Lisp. But it has (is):
- good, extensive documentation in a book, a technical report and on www pages - a lot of math stuff built in - extensive statistics modules availiable - a prototype object system - a graphics subsystem - a simple gui system - offers extensions to ffi and native pointers - a socket and regexp extension - works on mac, win, linux, vax, ...
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> David McClain wrote: > >Did someone say Raytheon?
> >I work for Raytheon Systems Co. in Tucson, AZ. We use Harlequin Common Lisp > >at the present time, and we have used Franz in the past. Our group of active > >users is small (3 of us) and I welcome any interaction on the topic.
> The original poster, Muddy, had this in his header: > Organization: Raytheon Company > and his email was mu...@raytheon.com > That's why Bob assumed that Muddy is working for Raytheon Systems but it > must have been just a nameclash.
> I would get pretty upset if some other company uses our name (x-ray) but > it happens all the time :)
I indeed do work at Raytheon Systems Company(I think the name changes), in Plano, Tx. I am part of the Defense group that was part of TI until they sold us out. My current and likely future need for LISP however is educational and not directly related to Raytheon. I think I will be wise to use the version of CLISP that SMU has on its machines, despite the fact there maybe better systems. The professor implied we would be making extensive use of libraries and thus I would assume there are potential problems with using different development systems. Since there doesn't seem to be a dominate vendor/provider of a LISP system, I doubt there is a lot of support for migration like there is for VC++ or Gcc.
> >David McClain, Sr. Scientist > >Raytheon Systems Co. > >Tucson, AZ
> >Robert Monfera <monf...@fisec.com> wrote in message > >news:387F7969.ACE43DCC@fisec.com... > >> Also, isn't Raytheon using a > >> commercial Common Lisp environment already?
* Robert Posey <mu...@raytheon.com> | Since there doesn't seem to be a dominate vendor/provider of a LISP | system, I doubt there is a lot of support for migration like there is for | VC++ or Gcc.
there is. Common Lisp vendors take very good care of their customers, and if they can help you overcome your association with another vendor, they are likely to take very good care of you while in transition. that's why competition is so great.
however, related to the question to which you assume you have the same answer you would have for VC++ and GCC: you don't _need_ much help to migrate from one Common Lisp implementation to another. that's one thing that is really great about the language: it's actually complete enough to do useful things in the language itself. imagine that!
