Re: Coral Lisp???

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From: Jim Sasaki
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1987 16:41

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> There is a review of Coral Common Lisp ... in the [August] MacUser....  The
> reviewer (if I remember correctly ...) claims that the Coral product is not
> a full Common Lisp.

Hate to correct you, but you remember incorrectly.  The article says that
ExperCommon Lisp is not Common Lisp.  (Apparently ExperCommon Lisp doesn't
include defstruct or full lexical closures.)  The article doesn't mention Coral
Common Lisp except to say that it is scheduled for 1987.  There's an ad for
Coral Common Lisp in the same issue of MacUser, but I don't know if they are
actually shipping.


> MacScheme comes off quite well in the review.  It gives you everything that
> is claimed for it and more than you probably would expect, i.e. a nicer
> interface into the toolbox.

It does indeed sound nice, though the article says that it's slow.  I'd very
seriously consider buying it if could produce stand-alone applications.  Does
anyone know if that's in the cards?

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    -- Jim Sasaki, CS dept., Upson Hall, Cornell Univ., Ithaca NY 14853
    (jts@gvax.cs.cornell.edu, {decvax|uw-beaver|vax135|...}!cornell!jts)

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