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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Any free/GPL/low-cost (linux) fully *ANSI* CLISP pkgs ?
Message-ID: <1996Oct10.095824.739@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
References: <slrn55k92r.b6.psci@teleport.com> <53etch$kr8@miso.cs.uq.edu.au> 	<3053854180430167@naggum.no> <4n4tk4p956.fsf@rtp.ericsson.se>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 96 09:58:24 GMT
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Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:

>Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> writes:

>> 
>> [Mark Pedersen]
>> 
>> |   CMU Common Lisp is ANSI, and now available for Linux.
>> 
>> CMUCL 17f was not ANSI.  have the Linux porters moved CMUCL up to ANSI?

>If it wasn't ANSI, then it's probably still not ANSI.  The porting
>effort has been to get it running better on FreeBSD and Linux, with
>some bug fixes and small enhancements.

I don't think that is true. The porters have done a lot of non-porting
enhangments and fixes and now that the port is done they obviously
seek for a new challenge :-)

Martin
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