Re: compile
From: Ray Dillinger (bear_at_sonic.net)
Date: 01/29/04
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 04:15:46 GMT
André Thieme wrote:
>
> Marc Spitzer wrote:
> > André Thieme <this.address.is.good.until.2004.feb.13@justmail.de> writes:
> >
> >
> >>Nothing is wrong with CAPI, however it is still not perfect. The price
> >>for LispWorks is not very low. If CAPI would be included in Corman
> >
> >
> > $900 with free runtimes, dirt cheap.
>
> Of course it is a good price for what they offer.
> However, the student version of Corman is easier to pay for me, 125$.
> Allegro pro is around 650$, but I don't know how it compares to the 999$
> version of LispWorks.
Heh. I have a copy of Franz' Allegro Common Lisp, still in shrink-wrap,
that I'd sell you.
The catch is, it's version 2.0, which is *TEN* years old. According
to the box, it requires 8 Mbytes of RAM and 12 Mbytes of hard disk
space, and will run on Windows 3.1 or Windows NT (given the era, this
probably means WinNT 3.51).
This is the "professional version" and as such it includes the "Runtime
generator for royalty-free delivery", which is what you need to make a
runtime image that people can load & execute with a doubleclick. According
to the box, it also includes some kind of drag&drop GUI builder, which
most likely generates GUI's functionally equivalent to modern GUI's, but
built with widgets so far out of style they'd look stylishly retro at
this point.
However, I doubt this is really what you want. Given that it's for
a Microsoft platform, there's virtually no chance this code will run
on a current WinNT, let alone WinME or WinXP. I've never used this
version myself, being mainly a Unix/Linux user at home. I've been
saving it, shrink-wrap and all, because maybe a retrocomputist or
somebody with an old program which has succumbed to bit rot on more
recent versions of the product may want it some day.
Bear
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