From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 1 05:01:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA09931 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 05:01:13 -0800 Received: from snoopy.mv.com (snoopy.mv.com [199.125.64.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA09917 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 05:01:07 -0800 Received: (from pw@localhost) by snoopy.mv.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA01420; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 07:59:39 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 07:59:39 -0500 From: "Paul F. Werkowski" Message-Id: <199504011259.HAA01420@snoopy.mv.com> To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw CC: FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: (message from Brian Tao on Sat, 1 Apr 1995 13:29:24 +0800 (CST)) Subject: Re: New Snapshot...Good and Bad.... Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Tao writes: Brian> On Fri, 31 Mar 1995, Paul F. Werkowski wrote: >> John> the other problem, which i imagine is a snapshot kind of John> thing ,is that CLISP falls over dead while it is trying >> You are running CMU Lisp on FreeBSD? How did you do this? Brian> Isn't CLISP == Common LISP? Or is that the same as CMU Brian> LISP? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is Brian> method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work Brian> ........ play --> taob@io.org Part of the problem is that there are several implementations of Lisp that use the name "CLISP". The one I am interested in now is (to quote from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs/lang/lisp/part4/faq-doc-1.html ) "CMU Common Lisp (CMU CL) is free, and runs on HPs, Sparcs (Mach, SunOs, and Solaris), DecStation 3100 (Mach), SGI MIPS (Iris), DEC Alpha/OSF1, IBM RT (Mach) and requires 16mb RAM, 25mb disk. It includes an incremental compiler, Hemlock emacs-style editor, source-code level debugger, code profiler and is mostly X3J13 compatible, including the new loop macro. It is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/clisp/release [128.2.206.173]" As I understand it, this project is now inactive but the code is pretty popular in Lisp circles. The code also is public domain with no copyrights attached. Don't know how hard it would be to port this to FreeBSD. Has anyone tried it? Paul