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- I think that a common-lisp-compatibility package written
- in Franz would not be as difficult as all that.
-
- If Common Lisp (TM of DEC?) were available on all the same
- machines at the same price, (appx. $0.) and CL were
- in fact a superset of Franz for all practical purposes, and
- with similar or better efficiency, etc. Why would anyone bother?
-
- Of course if CL does not meet all of the objectives (e.g. price, machines),
- then a CL-to-Franz "translator" might make sense.
-
- With that in mind,
- I would like to officially request a copy of the Common Lisp
- language (as implemented in CL, presumably), as soon as it
- becomes available (i.e. no later than when it is a "product"
- of DEC, and probably at "beta" test time).
- I agree fully with Scott that trying to do this with an incomplete
- language specification is unwise.
-
- I am also not making any commitment to do anything with CL at
- Berkeley, but since we are building tools for our own applications,
- and CL might be useful, we might consider an efficient merge of
- ideas.
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