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- From: tackett@ipld00.hac.com (Walter Alden Tackett)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
- Subject: Re: LISP
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 17:56:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.153838.7079@ncsu.edu> naoursla@eos.ncsu.edu (NORMAN ALAN OURSLAND) writes:
- >
- >Hi. Does anyone know of a public domain LISP interpreter for UNIX, X-windows,
- >or MS-DOS to use for playing around with GA? Thank you.
- >
- >N. Alan Oursland
-
- Yes- akcl, Austin Kyoto Common LISP is available for Unix machines. I use it
- to run Genetic Programming. Docummentation and debugger are everything you
- would expect for free :-( , but compatibility to Steele/Common LISP standard
- is excellent, and language is extensible in C. It is about equally as fast
- as Allegro CL and Lucid, *but* if you are running GP, there is no FAST-EVAL
- written for it and I am far from being enuf of a LISP guru to write one. If
- anyone out there in GP land has one, or the ambition to write one, PLEASE LET
- ME KNOW!
-
- From the akcl README file:
-
- OBTAINING SOURCES:
- -----------------
- * There are source files on rascal.ics.utexas.edu:pub/akcl-XX.tar.Z
- You probably want the highest XX version number. For example
- akcl-1-605.tar.Z would allow you to build the version 1-605 of AKCL. In
- the following this compressed tar file is simply referred to as
- akcl.tar.Z. You will also need to obtain the original kcl distribution
- of June 1987. That is referred to as kcl.tar.Z and is also available
- on rascal. An alternate source for these files is cli.com:akcl/akcl-XX.tar.Z
- In general the bandwidth to rascal is higher than to cli.com.
- Rascal's address is rascal.ics.utexas.edu (128.83.138.20).
-
- * If you cannot obtain these files via internet, a cartridge tape (sun
- compatible) or diskettes containing akcl, and kcl sources may be
- obtained for $250 US plus shipping, from J. Schelter, 1715
- Barnswallow, Autin TX 78746. This would be in standard tar format.
- Some machines on which akcl compiles are 386 under System V (eg
- Microport), Sun's (sparc,sun3's), HP under hpux and 4.3. An older
- version of sources is also available from Austin Code Works, 11100
- Leafwood Ln., Austin TX 78750. Tel:(512) 258-0785.
-
- Good luck!
-
- -walter
-
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