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From: smcl@sytex.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Subject: Re: What should an alternative look like? was Re: Why you should not
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mayer@netcom7.netcom.com (Niels P. Mayer) writes:

> 
> Sounds like you just described XLISP and it's progeny XLISP-PLUS,
> XLISP-STAT, and WINTERP.
> the original articles about it in the early-mid eighties (e.g. XLISP
> 1.6). For example, most people don't realize that XLISP-PLUS now covers a
> nice working subset of the Common Lisp standard, features lexical scoping,

Howdy,
        I'll second the motion - XLISP-PLUS is nice little interpreter.
Portable to a fault (I remember some article that used XLISP to test
a bunch of C compilers because the C was so clean).  Runs on
_everything_.  I'm a young fellow, and my first intro to Lisp was
through an early XLISP pulled off some BBS.  Snagged XLISP-Stat while
in Kiev, Ukraine.  The darn thing is still actively hacked on and
still runs on everything.  Not bad for a free Lisp.
        Is is likely that the license on it could be brought into
line with the GPL though?

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Scott McLoughlin
Conscious Computing
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