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From: Ron Garret on 12 Feb 2010 22:16 In article <hl4ccp$5od$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Tim Bradshaw <tfb(a)tfeb.org> wrote: > On 2010-02-12 04:16:29 +0000, Duke Normandin said: > > > Is there any reason why I cannot / should not have more than one CL > > implementation installed? Say something like SBCL and CCL. Any potential > > conflicts? > > No, and I think it's generally a good idea to do so: it helps a lot > finding compatibility issues and so on. > > (I only currently have CCL but I'm not doing any serious development in Lisp) I have CCL, SBCL and CLisp on hand. They're all good for different things. CCL is my primary development platform because it has everything, SBCL is good for when you need speed, and CLisp, well, it's just good to have around, kind of like comfort food. :-) rg
From: Paul Donnelly on 13 Feb 2010 04:27 Duke Normandin <dukeofperl(a)nospam.net> writes: > I was leaning toward sbcl, but I think that it's a VM-based implementation - > everything in an image! I like file-based... SBCL works like every other CL.
From: Leo on 13 Feb 2010 05:05 Paul Donnelly <paul-donnelly(a)sbcglobal.net> writes: > Duke Normandin <dukeofperl(a)nospam.net> writes: > >> I was leaning toward sbcl, but I think that it's a VM-based implementation - >> everything in an image! I like file-based... > > SBCL works like every other CL. I tried compiling sbcl on osx with threads and it had some failures during testing. that was version 1.0.31 if I remember correctly. Best wishes, Leo
From: Aleksandr Vinokurov on 13 Feb 2010 08:15 Duke Normandin <dukeofperl(a)nospam.net> writes: > On 2010-02-12, Aleksandr Vinokurov <aleksandr.vin(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Feb 11, 10:52 pm, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...(a)nospam.net> wrote: >> >> http://www.gigamonkeys.com/lispbox/ -- Allegro CL & CCL are in bundles >> for OS X. > > I wish that I had known about that site before I started digging > around.. ;) Actually I don't remember how I found it myself, seems there were no link from the book, AFAIK. > >> I'm on reading this book too, and I've choosen Allegro CL. As I >> understand Peter >> Siebel uses standard CL language and does not digg in differencies of >> implementations... So we will not find any GUI quirks in his book :) > > For no particular reason - other than I was visiting their site - I decided > to install Allegro-CL. I see that it comes with both a GUI (allegro-express) > and a terminal app (alisp). I've read the company history http://www.franz.com/about/company.history.lhtml and was attracted to go with its implementation for my start. > > I'm a heavy emacs user, so it was on board already. I installed `slime', so > now I have all the bits-n-pieces to hack some Lisp. ;) I'm sure that I'll > be test-driving other implementations eventually, but for the time being, > I'll be heeding the wisdom expressed in this ng and stick with Allegro, > unless I get to hate it big-time. My experience in emacs started with the Lisp learning process :) Every day I found smth. new, that's wonderful! Best wishes, Aleksandr
From: Duke Normandin on 13 Feb 2010 10:04
On 2010-02-13, Leo <sdl.web(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Paul Donnelly <paul-donnelly(a)sbcglobal.net> writes: > >> Duke Normandin <dukeofperl(a)nospam.net> writes: >> >>> I was leaning toward sbcl, but I think that it's a VM-based implementation - >>> everything in an image! I like file-based... >> >> SBCL works like every other CL. > > I tried compiling sbcl on osx with threads and it had some failures > during testing. that was version 1.0.31 if I remember correctly. dnormandin@ ~ 08:00 am >> port info sbcl sbcl @1.0.33, Revision 4 (lang) Variants: darwin_10_i386, darwin_8_i386, darwin_9_i386, [+]html, powerpc, threads Description: Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a Open Source development system for ANSI Common Lisp. It provides an interactive environment including an integrated native compiler, interpreter, and debugger. (And it, and its generated code, can also play nicely with Unix when running noninteractively.) Homepage: http://www.sbcl.org Platforms: darwin License: unknown Maintainers: gwright(a)macports.org, waqar(a)macports.org, easieste(a)macports.org HTH on your next go-round ;) -- Duke *** Tolerance becomes a crime, when applied to evil [Thomas Mann] *** |