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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace
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Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> writes:

>* Teunis Peters
>| (aside: I'm restricted at the moment to Linux+X11+no motif)
>:
>| I have LOTS of time on my hands (and no money... so don't recommend any
>| commercial software, books, or anything involving money.  I don't have
>| any.  Just a computer and lots of time).
>:
>| I'm building a LISP engine... Both compiler/interpreter (actually - it
>| compiles dynamically dependant on available CPU cycles [sorta]).  I'm
>| building it in C, 'cause I need a good assembly language and I don't plan
>| on only running it on an x86 processor.

>you might wish to ask Franz, Inc, to send you their free personal use
>licence to the already completed Allegro Common Lisp environment for Linux.
>it will save you about two hundred years of programming time, and it's more
>fun to write in Common Lisp than to write your own implementation, anyway.

>I think it may need RedHat 4.0, but I don't know how compatible the
>different distributions of Linux are.

Franz Allegro has a few Redhat dependencies in the installation
script. Otherwise, you don't need much more than a running Linux
kernel. I am even near to running it on FreeBSD.

Martin
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