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From: John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] lisp again.
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 2009 08:54:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d3530220909070554q27a95bc8mf8ad670fcdf37008@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <283f5df10909070547i33935f1bs91a4ab9cbdb590e2@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:47 AM, LiteStar numnums<litestar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, lisp != common lisp aside, I wouldn't mind a native CL system. I
> haven't looked at the SBCL backend in quite sometime, but, assuming it's not
> terribly insane, that would be a decent route. Most CL work that isn't
> specific to one of the proprietary systems (Allegro, LispWorks, &c.) is
> written with SBCL or, to a lesser extent, CCL. If anyone's interested in
> working on a CL port to plan9, I'll start a lisp cabal, that can work on
> other systems next.
>
> I'll look today...
[previous message and grotesque signature snipped]

One challenge with SBCL and some other implementations is that you
need a Common Lisp system already in place to compile them. I looked
into Clisp, which can be compiled with a C compiler, but after
fighting configure for a while I quit.

John
--
"Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-07 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-07  7:29 Fernan Bolando
2009-09-07 12:47 ` LiteStar numnums
2009-09-07 12:54   ` John Floren [this message]
2009-09-07 13:19     ` Fernan Bolando
2009-09-07 13:39       ` LiteStar numnums
2009-09-07 13:37     ` LiteStar numnums
2009-09-07 13:51     ` Iruata Souza
2009-09-07 13:53       ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-07 14:10         ` Iruata Souza

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