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Aucbvax.4741 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Oct 27 23:41:27 1981 lisp >From MBM@MIT-XX Tue Oct 27 22:50:52 1981 We have had the Harvard lisp under recent discussion for a few months, and frankly wouldnt recommend it. For one thing, they say it implements lisp 1.5, which is about like saying your fortran compiler implements fortran II. No, its more like saying you have an apl interpreter that implements Ken Iverson's original paper. As an example I couldnt even carry out the simplest exercises in Winston and Horn's book on lisp programming without getting different answers. For another thing, its written in assembler; not as, but "macro" which isnt DEC macro-11 but something that looks like it but has been hacked up. Good luck trying to maintain it without help. In fact it bears a lot of resemblances to an MIT crock lisp, which, in fairness, is also 10 years old, predates unix, and was only intended for teaching (except that is a little closer to a useful dialect: maclisp).

Hasnt ANYONE out there at least TRIED to write a lisp for unix? Can we do ANYTHING about trimming down this berkeley lisp so it will run on an 11? --mike -------

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