From: wein@disco-sun3.dfki.uni-sb.de (Michael Wein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: True 32 bit Common Lisp for OS/2 2.0 ????
Date: 23 Nov 92 11:22:37 GMT
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In-reply-to: BRAUN@FRECP12.BITNET's message of 21 Nov 92 15:05:04 GMT


Actualy, I don`t know any 32-BIT Common Lisp for OS/2. But there is hope!  Last
week I got CLISP for DOS from ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.115.2].
Here comes a description of it : 

====================== start of file "clisp.README" ===========================

This is CLISP, a Common Lisp implementation.

CLISP is mostly CLtL1 compliant. For those who want to use CLOS, I also
provide a port of PCL. No other features of CLtL2 or dpANS CL are
currently supported.

The newest versions will always be available via anonymous ftp from
ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.115.2], directory /pub/lisp/clisp/.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                        Common Lisp CLISP

Common Lisp is
  * a convential programming language and an AI language
  * interactive
  * a Lisp for professional use

Common Lisp programs are
  * easy to test (interactive)
  * easy to maintain (depending on programming style)
  * portable (there is a standard for the language and the library functions)

Our Common Lisp CLISP
  * needs only 1.5 MB of memory
  * implements 99% of the standard
  * can call your preferred editor
  * is freely distributable

Common Lisp provides
  * clear syntax, carefully designed semantics
  * several data types: numbers, strings, arrays, lists, characters, symbols,
    structures, streams etc.
  * runtime typing: the programmer needn't bother about type declarations,
    but he gets notified on type violations.
  * many generic functions:
    88 arithmetic functions for all kinds of numbers (integers, ratios,
    floating point numbers, complex numbers),
    44 search/filter/sort functions for lists, arrays and strings
  * automatic memory management (garbage collection)
  * packaging of programs into modules
  * macros: every programmer can make his own language extensions

Our Common Lisp CLISP provides
  * an interpreter
  * a compiler which makes execution of programs 5 times faster
  * all data types with unlimited size (the size need never be declared,
    the size of lists and arrays may be changed dynamically)
  * integers of arbitrary length, unlimited floating point number precision
  * 594 library functions, 542 of them written in C

Get it via anonymous ftp from ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.115.2],
directory /pub/lisp/clisp/, or contact
Bruno Haible <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de>.

========================= end of file "clisp.README" ==========================

I immediately tried to run CLISP under OS/2 but I failed. So I contacted Bruno
Haible if there were a port of it for OS/2. Well, he told me that this would be
no big problem, since CLISP uses the EMX 32/BIT Extender (i. e. it is NO
program restricted by 64 KByte segments of MS-DOS etc). At the moment, I am
copying the sources (about 6.7 MByte!!!) and will try to recompile them under
OS/2 using EMX/GCC. So, call me in about two weeks if I succeeded. Or, get the
sources yourself (from ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de) and do the same...

        Michael Wein

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