'scuse me folks for wasting your time with dumb questions -
Does anyone here use CL or Scheme on Apple's newest operating system? (code-named "Panther", or OS 10.3.2)
If so, any problems?
I have the demo' version of MCL, and have been thinking of buying the regular version, but am worried that it might not run on Apple's latest release of their OS - - - Digitool's website has no mention of the OS requirements for their product.
> I have the demo' version of MCL, and have been thinking of buying the > regular version, but am worried that it might not run on Apple's latest > release of their OS - - - Digitool's website has no mention of the OS > requirements for their product.
In article <100120040856597792%NoSpamDam...@invalid.com>, Mark Conrad <NoSpamDam...@invalid.com> wrote:
Just for completeness, lisps known to work under Panther (10.3 - 10.3.2), in no particular order. I have all of these running on my machine, though some (Lispworks and Allegro) are only trial versions:
> Does anyone here use CL or Scheme on Apple's newest operating system? > (code-named "Panther", or OS 10.3.2)
> If so, any problems?
> I have the demo' version of MCL, and have been thinking of buying the > regular version, but am worried that it might not run on Apple's latest > release of their OS - - - Digitool's website has no mention of the OS > requirements for their product.
> Thanx much for any info',
> Mark-
I am running MCL5 under Mac OS X 10.3.2 and do not have any problems.
In article <raffaelcavallaro-956E18.17423410012...@netnews.comcast.net>, Raffael
Cavallaro <raffaelcavall...@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com> wrote: > In article <100120040856597792%NoSpamDam...@invalid.com>, > Mark Conrad <NoSpamDam...@invalid.com> wrote:
> Just for completeness, lisps known to work under Panther (10.3 - > 10.3.2), in no particular order. I have all of these running on my > machine, though some (Lispworks and Allegro) are only trial versions:
As a Lisp newbie, I am just in this for old-age recreation, not for any 'practical' reasons. Anything Lispy that glitters is my motto, like Paul Graham's fine book about macros for example.
Years ago when I was a wage slave I dabbled with Scheme and CL but never followed up by doing anything constructive.
(wonder how many thousands of people are in that particular boat)
Forgot every tidbit I learned, now only have vague memories of Continuation-Passing-Style, toy compiler construction, implementing "Wind" and "Unwind" escape procedures in Scheme, and macro useage wherever macros will override the harm they do by making Lisp more difficult to troubleshoot.
Gotta lot of enjoyment studying books like "Essentials of Programming Languages", and even reading my old dog-eared "Little Lisper" book, trying to justify to myself any possible uses for various versions of the Y operator.<g>
In the distant-distant past I even bought that 12-grand "MacIvory" board for the Mac computer I had at the time, but never got the time to wade through all the Texas-Instrument doc's on how to use that dedicated Lisp chip. (because I was literally working days, nights, holidays, etc. at Hughes Aircraft in the days of the Cold War, testing fire-control radars for the F14, F15, F18 aircraft radars, also did a lot of work on the old robotic "Surveyor" moon probes)
All my old Lisp knowledge is in the past now, long forgotten. I will have to start from scratch to get back on board Lisp.
********************************************* Rethorical question just in case anyone wants to respond: Has Lisp changed in the past 15 years?
I still have all my 15-year old Lisp books. If no recent changes have occurred, they should be adequate to get me back on board.
As I recall the Scheme folks were considering whether or not to make macros an "official" part of Scheme.
About year 1990 the commercial vendors of Scheme implementations more or less went out of business as far as "developing" improved up-to-date versions of Scheme was concerned.
Private groups of volunteers took up the slack in developing newer versions of Scheme.
Common Lisp kept getting slightly more complex with every meeting of the "design-by-commitee" people who had to bless any changes to the standardized design of Common Lisp.
At least Digitool is still in business, and I guess Franz still makes a CL aimed at Wintel hardware. I don't think Franz makes a Mac version, perhaps that has changed by now.
Being a Lisp newbie I probably have a lot of the above stuff wrong.
Gadd, I sure miss those monthly magazines named "AI Expert" - - I got a lot of good tips about applying Lisp to real problems from that magazine, before they went out of business.
Thanks again Raffael (and everyone else), for answering my original question about whether Lisp would run on modern Mac operating systems like "Panther".
Lisp certainly is a fun language, IMO. Wonder if anyone else in this forum has the prime reason of "fun" as their main motivation for learning Lisp. :-)
In article <110120040000557463%NoSpamDam...@invalid.com>, Mark Conrad wrote: > Lisp certainly is a fun language, IMO. Wonder if anyone else in > this forum has the prime reason of "fun" as their main motivation > for learning Lisp. :-)
See http://alu.cliki.net/RtL%20Highlight%20Film , and search for "The Hedonists". The "Road To Lisp Survey" page looks pretty incomplete (missing most of the RtL entries), but all the links (that I've tried so far) in Kenny's 'highlight film' work.
Mark Conrad wrote: > ********************************************* > Rethorical question just in case anyone wants to respond: > Has Lisp changed in the past 15 years?
CLtL2 by Guy Steele was published in 1989 and presented the then-current state of the ANSI standardization. That's 15 years ago. ANSI Common Lisp was officially published as a standard in 1995. There have been several minor changes made to Common Lisp in between, but nothing really breath-taking IMHO.
> I still have all my 15-year old Lisp books. If no recent changes have > occurred, they should be adequate to get me back on board.
I don't know since I haven't used Lisp at that time. However, a good source for getting information how things are right now is by checking with the ANSI specs. For example, the HyperSpec is a good source.
> As I recall the Scheme folks were considering whether or not to make > macros an "official" part of Scheme.
They have included a restricted form of macros in the standard. The current standard is R5RS.
> At least Digitool is still in business, and I guess Franz still makes a > CL aimed at Wintel hardware. I don't think Franz makes a Mac version, > perhaps that has changed by now.
Yes, that has changed. You can download a trial version at their website.
Pascal
-- Tyler: "How's that working out for you?" Jack: "Great." Tyler: "Keep it up, then."
Larry Clapp wrote: > In article <110120040000557463%NoSpamDam...@invalid.com>, Mark Conrad wrote:
>>Lisp certainly is a fun language, IMO. Wonder if anyone else in >>this forum has the prime reason of "fun" as their main motivation >>for learning Lisp. :-)
> See http://alu.cliki.net/RtL%20Highlight%20Film , and search for "The > Hedonists". The "Road To Lisp Survey" page looks pretty incomplete > (missing most of the RtL entries), but all the links (that I've tried > so far) in Kenny's 'highlight film' work.
Yeah, I sent off a couple of emails to likely sources of assistance, got no replies. I give up! :)
(sorted more or less by how often I use them; in other words, I use OpenMCL the most).
> > If so, any problems? > > I have the demo' version of MCL, and have been thinking of buying the > regular version, but am worried that it might not run on Apple's latest > release of their OS - - - Digitool's website has no mention of the OS > requirements for their product. > > Thanx much for any info',
As far as I can tell the demo version of MCL works fine on Panther.
In article <btrp7f$dk...@newsreader2.netcologne.de>, Pascal Costanza
<costa...@web.de> wrote: > > At least Digitool is still in business, and I guess Franz still makes a > > CL aimed at Wintel hardware. I don't think Franz makes a Mac version, > > perhaps that has changed by now.
> Yes, that has changed. You can download a trial version at their website.
Thanks for the updated info' about what happed to Lisp and Scheme in the last 15 years, it will take me a while to get back up to speed.
It should be interesting to observe any differences between the Franz and Digitool versions on CL.
In article <slrnc02lj6.ih8.la...@theclapp.ddts.net>, Larry Clapp
<la...@theclapp.org> wrote: > > Lisp certainly is a fun language, IMO. Wonder if anyone else in > > this forum has the prime reason of "fun" as their main motivation > > for learning Lisp. :-)
<NoSpamDam...@invalid.com> wrote: > 'scuse me folks for wasting your time with dumb questions -
> Does anyone here use CL or Scheme on Apple's newest operating system? > (code-named "Panther", or OS 10.3.2)
> If so, any problems?
> I have the demo' version of MCL, and have been thinking of buying the > regular version, but am worried that it might not run on Apple's latest > release of their OS - - - Digitool's website has no mention of the OS > requirements for their product.
> Thanx much for any info',
> Mark-
I use two lisp implementations on Panther:
- Steel Bank Common Lisp, for which I make binaries available (there's a bug which is currently preventing building from source on uniprocessor machines) at http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/software/SBCL/
- and MCL 4.3.5, in Classic mode. I personally don't need the native support of the full version, and the 4.3.5 version is a lot more affordable for a poor student like me :-)
Of course, OpenMCL, ECL, GCL, clisp, Armed Bear Lisp, LispWorks, and Allegro work fine too. In fact I think the only modern CL /not/ on OS X is Corman, for obvious reasons.
If you want to try out the free software approach before deciding whether you want MCL, I'd suggest running SLIME - http://www.cliki.net/SLIME - along with Emacs and either SBCL or OpenMCL.
Mark Conrad writes: > dedicated Lisp chip. (because I was literally working days, nights, > holidays, etc. at Hughes Aircraft in the days of the Cold War, testing > fire-control radars for the F14, F15, F18 aircraft radars, also did a > lot of work on the old robotic "Surveyor" moon probes)
[jumping over my chair, hat's off; my right-stuff-meter is off scale]
Sur-ve-yor?!? _That_ is rocket science :-) I keep telling school kids about Surveyor 3 in my astronomy lessons.
If you are not already a member, you should probably have a look at the ProjectApollo mailing list:
A number of knowledgeable people who worked on space projects in the 1960s and 1970s are among the subscribers (plus many clueless space enthusiasts like me...). Also, be sure to check the Lunar Photo of the Day:
In article <87k73woohk....@plato.moon.paoloamoroso.it>, Paolo Amoroso
<amor...@mclink.it> wrote: > I keep telling school kids about Surveyor 3 > in my astronomy lessons
Those were exciting days, long before the first humans landed on the moon. Very primitive technology by today's standards.
Any present day low-priced Mac powerbook has a lot more computing power than we ever had for the Surveyor project.
I recall working on "drum" memory devices, long before RAM chips became readily available. A few kilobytes of memory was all we had available in those days.
The first aircraft weapons-fire-control radar I worked on weighed the better part of 1,000 pounds, used fleming valves instead of transistors. It is a wonder that the aircraft could become airborne, lugging all that weight just for the radar set.
Thanks for the pointer to the "Project Appolo" website, I might run into some of the old timers I used to work with.
Sure hope the Mars rover finds fossils of carbon-based lifeforms.
In article <120120040759101918%NOSPAMbmastenbNOS...@cs.indiana.edu>,
Brian Mastenbrook <NOSPAMbmastenbNOS...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > - and MCL 4.3.5, in Classic mode. I personally don't need the native > support of the full version...
In my case I am trying to wean myself away from using OS 9.x altogether, like a bunch of other Mac users have done.
Lot more available horsepower for exciting Lisp projects using OS-X especially now that Apple is selling computers with 64-bit CPUs.
> ...and the 4.3.5 version is a lot more affordable > for a poor student like me :-)
I know what you mean. I had to restrain myself from buying the dual-CPU Apple computer, the one using the 64-bit CPUs, even though the price is not all that high. (for people with normal incomes, that is)
For the present, I struggle along with two older Mac powerbooks, a Pismo and a Lombard. 99% of my computing is done on the really old Lombard powerbook, running ancient OS 8.6 and a 6 GB internal drive.
I am trying to get all my utilities etc. moved over to the Pismo which has 1,024 MBs of RAM, a 40 GB internal drive, and Mac OS 10.3.2
Much more room for bigger Lisp projects on that machine.
Having trouble with the built-in "Disk Utility" that comes with "Panther", which Apple apparently changed from the more precise older version that came with "Jaguar".
The reason I am having trouble is because I do some fiddling around with Lisp's ability to create other Lisp programs 'on-the-fly', so to speak.
If my Lisp program creates another Lisp program of its own, and part of the "created" program has instructions to create an exact 12.00 GB partition on a disk drive, the Panther version comes out 11.88 GBs instead of the 12.00 GBs that was requested.
As you can imagine, this creates all sorts of difficulties later.
I snapped out some 'workaround' Unix code that corrects this difficulty, however for the code to work I have to rely on a Panther native version of Symantecs "Disk Editor", which I have on order.
'nuff of my problems, hope you are having fun with your Lisp.
