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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Common Lisp, where ?
Message-ID: <1996Apr11.101832.17815@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 10:18:32 GMT
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rsww@quanta.com (Ross S. W. Walker) writes:

>Dave Neubart (dneubart@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>: In <4jro45$4b9@marti.uji.es> ii261@rossegat.uji.es (MENEU HERNANDEZ
>: FCO. JOSE) writes: 
>: >
>: >
>: >	Hello, sorry for my medium English:
>: >
>: >	I have a question:
>: >	Sombody knows when can I get a shareware compiler or
>: >	interpreter for Common Lisp?. If it possible I would like
>: >	one easy to use (under X-Window, Windows or OS/2), but
>: >	never mind if it is under DOS or Linux.
>: >
>: >	Thanks. 
>: >
>: >	Francisco.
>: >	ii251@rossegat.uji.es

>:   Francisco:

>:       There are at least two Window versions of Common Lisp.

>:       One is Harlequins FreeLisp; the other is from Franz Lisp.
>:       I don't have the addresses at hand, if you have diffficulty
>:       locating either or both of them, send some e-mail and I'll
>:       search my office.

>:     Dave.

>There are two free lisp versions for FreeBSD/Linux and commercial
>Unix. One is GNU CL, prep.ai.mit.edu, the other is CMU CL (for
>FreeBSD), http://www.mv.com/users/pw/lisp/. Both are good full
>implementation packages. GNU CL is supported on more systems

Clisp is another often used CL implementation, and has a lot of
preconfigured packages and other new-user goddies like
commandline-editing. In other areas it is worse than the other
packages. 

>right now though so I would start with that. Both packages use
>X-Windows if available by using the Tk/Tcl packages out there, so

CMUCL has no Tk binding. You can use CLX, CLUE, Garnet and CLM with
CMUCL. 

>those must be compiled and installed first to build these with
>X-Window support. 

Which is easy to do with Clisp and CMUCL (at least on workstations),
while the gcl CLX needs to be compiled by the user.

>Personnally I use emacs and text mode, because it works for me.

Neither of these has some integrated GUI-based development
environment. 

Martin
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