Common Lisp for Amiga? Slip?
Rmin...@udel.edu.uucp
for the amiga? I would appreciate any first-hand experiences.
Should I even bother trying to run lisp when i only have
(realistically) 2 or so Mb?
I am going to be putting Karnes slip onto my amiga in the feb/march
time frame- unless someone else has done it first. Anybody know?
On a related note, is there anywhere on the net that i can ftp make
and sample tasking programs?
Thanks in advance,
ron
mi...@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu.uucp
>Anybody know of a GOOD (e.g. NOT metacomco) Common Lisp
>for the amiga? I would appreciate any first-hand experiences.
While I was at the AAAI show in PA last Aug. I talked with a M. Roy
Broughton Vice Pres. of Marketing at Act Informatique. They have a
product called Le_LISP that they where showing for the IBM-PC and MAC;
and apparently the Amiga. Their very colorful brochure mentioned the
Amiga in a foot note but not in the main body. It looked like a nice
product, was close to Common LISP compatable, and getting closer with
each new release. Some features from the brochure:
* Large subset of Common LISP, Implemented on a virtual machine,
* Le_lisp on MAC is faster then Franz on a Vax/780 (that does not say much :-)
* 15,000 functionsl including, real numbers strings, vectors, macros...
* Environment includes - Full screen editor (emacs like), pretty printer,
full debugger and trace.....
And much much more....
I tried to get in touch with the Company once through an answering machine
in CA but with no success. I will give the information here, perhapse
if a few others inquire the Company will look at the US-Amiga market in
a more agressive manner.
USA: Act Informatique c/o 3122 A ETON Avenue
BERKELEY, CA 94705 - Tel: (415)654-3902
FRANCE: Act Informatique
12, rue de la Montagne-Ste-Genevieve
75005 Paris - Tel:(1)46.33.72.60
UK: Logotron LTD - Dales Brewry, Gwydr St
Cambridge CB1 2LJ - Tel:(223)323 656
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Rich Miner ...!wanginst!ulowell!miner
Ulowell, Center for Productivity Enhancement (617) 452-5000 x2693
HAL hears the Amiga9000 series is not selling. "Please explain Dave. Why
aren't Amiga9000's selling?" Bowman hesitates, "You aren't IBM compatible."
ee17...@sdcc3.ucsd.edu.uucp
if you know Lisp. When I first purchased Lisp, I too thought it
was a piece of trash, but as I learned Lisp, the poor documentation,
nonexistant features, etc were less of a problem. You can write
your own routines (like LET and DO) very easily once you have
mastered Lisp. I have used Amiga Lisp in an AI class and Lisp class
and it performed quite well. With 1 mbyte memory large programs are
no problem...
The only other Lisp for the Amiga currently is a Public Domain
Lisp, XLisp, written in C, and I think it may include source.
Hello Gold Hill? Texas Instruments? Port to Amiga...
John
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