RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Boot vs. Lisp

[Weiss, Juergen]

Dear Tim,

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> Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Boot vs. Lisp
> 
> the first common lisp port of axiom to the ibm/rt was to cmucl
> (then called spice lisp under scott fahlman at cmu). it should
> still work. i'll fetch the archive and diff it with the current
> sources.

I must warn you, that the version is more than 2 years old. Most
changes fix the usage or the better not-usage of #'. There are
2 changes to the algebra files with respect of char and integer
mixture. And directories have no file type in CMU CL - this
change to daase.lisp is not a fix but a hack and does not
work under GCL. The other changes should work with GCL as
well.

> the key issue is the browser/graphics integration.
> 
CMU CL has an interface to external C code, but I never
tried it. Rewriting the 2 C files in Lisp should not
be difficult either. Not being too interested in the
graphics and hyperdoc, I did not port these parts
to CMU CL at that time (2 or 3 years ago).

Regards

Juergen Weiss

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