In January 1989, Apple Computer acquired the assets of Coral Software. Coral had two main Lisp products: Allegro Common Lisp and Pearl Lisp. Apple has re-released Allegro Common Lisp as the APDA product: Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp, at the reduced price of $495. Macintosh Allegro CL contains three modules previously sold separately by Coral Software: Allegro CL, the Foreign Function Interface and the Stand-Alone Application Generator. Pearl Lisp, which has not been re-released, is a subset of Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp that shows off the powers of the Lisp language. We’ve have included it on this CD for your programming enjoyment.
This version of the software has not been tested by Apple and may not run on all Macintoshes or all versions of System Software. In addition, the manual has not been edited (except for the cover page); please disregard any references to Coral Software.
If in your exploration of Pearl Lisp, you decide to write a double-clickable application in Lisp, you should upgrade to a full Common Lisp product such as Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp.
