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- Please note: the following code does NOT work with MCL 2.0.
- It depends on CLIM 2.0, which has not yet been released for MCL.
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- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 17:24:03 -0500
- From: David Hart <dhart@cs.umass.edu>
- Subject: New CLASP, with CLIP
-
- Hello again,
-
- Though I'm sure we've long since exhausted your patience, I'd like to announce
- at last the availability of an industrial strength version of CLASP, the Common
- Lisp Analytical Statistics Package. Never fully satisfied with the previous
- version, which was still too wedded to the TI Explorer for our tastes, we have
- developed a new version using CLOS and CLIM that now runs on a variety of
- platforms. While not yet as powerful as we would like, it provides the basic
- functionality you'd expect from a statistics package. Its unique and most
- powerful feature is its CLIM interface, complete with a "notebook" that is both
- a "desktop" for icons and a Lisp interactor pane. It uses BBN's SciGraph
- package for plotting, which is a publicly available and extensible CLIM-based
- system.
-
- We have also developed a Common Lisp Instrumentation Package (CLIP) which is
- available along with CLASP. CLIP is designed to allow AI system developers and
- evaluators a portable way to define and manage "alligator clips" for
- instrumenting their programs. CLIP produces data about program behavior in
- CLASP format, as well as other commonly used data formats. It currently has
- facilities to support experiment design, such as scenario scripting and
- factorial combination of independent variables, and can collect data in summary
- form (at the end of each trial) or based upon the occurrence of specific events
- (both periodic and non-periodic).
-
- Development of both CLASP and CLIP continue, and are largely driven by user
- demand. If you try it and like it, but uncover bugs or would like to see other
- features added, please let us know at clasp-support@cs.umass.edu.
-
- CLASP is available at ftp.cs.umass.edu in the directory pub/eksl/clasp. CLIP is
- available under the directory pub/eksl/clip. A tutorial on CLASP can be found
- in pub/eksl/clasp-tutorial.
-
-
- Dave Hart
- Experimental Knowledge Systems Laboratory 413-545-3278
- Computer Science Dept., LGRC 413-545-1249 (fax)
- University of Massachusetts dhart@cs.umass.edu
- Box 34610
- Amherst, MA 01003-4610
-