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- From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: Re: Free CL with CLOS: advice?
- Message-ID: <7416@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 15:02:18 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.093746.10481@waikato.ac.nz>
- Sender: news@aiai.ed.ac.uk
- Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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- In article <1992Sep1.093746.10481@waikato.ac.nz> bcs@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- >Hi all,
- >
- >I've been asked to find a good cheap/free (sound familiar?) CL with CLOS
- >support. We've had akcl for some time, but I can find no mention of the
- >object system in it's readmes or docs (I'm not a lisp practitioner, I just
- >run the machines). I just spotted the release note for the CMU CL distrib-
- >ution, and that does offer CLOS in some form.
- >
- >I guess the question is: is CMU CL the way to go (no offence guys!)? Or is
- >there another CL with CLOS out there on the net somewhere that might be
- >better?
-
- CMU CL is excellent if you have a machine it will run on. (I'd
- like a 386/486 port, but it looks like I won't get one, because
- a 386 is the wrong kind of machine in terms of number of registers,
- among other things.)
-
- PCL (the nearly-portable CLOS) will run in KCL. It works fairly well
- but can be a bit of a pain when CLOS calls COMPILE (which is slow in
- KCL).
-
- What I'd like to see is for [A]KCL to catch up with CLtL II / the
- spANS and for PCL-in-KCL to be able to avoid both COMPILE and the
- pessimizing process you get if you just make COMPILE a no-op.
-
- -- Jd
-
- Ok, so I didn't send via e-mail. Sorry.
-