Re: Lisp Development on Mac OS X

From: Rainer Joswig (joswig_at_corporate-world.lisp.de)
Date: 04/30/04

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    Friedrich Dominicus <just-for-news-frido@q-software-solutions.de> wrote in message news:<87r7u56fsa.fsf@fbigm.here>...
    > David Steuber <david@david-steuber.com> writes:
    >
    > >
    > > Isn't there also a free edition of LispWorks available for OS X?
    > Yes
    > http://www.lispworks.com/downloads/lw-personal-edition.html
    > >
    > > SBCL is available from CVS. I don't know if they also have Mac
    > > binaries that are in dmgs.
    > It's finkable. And runs on Mac OS X here nicely.
    >
    > IMHO Digitools Lisp is the most integrated Lisp on Mac OS X (which
    > should be no suprise it's their "home-platform". LispWorks is a very
    > interesting cross platform development tool, their CAPI stuff runs on
    > all supported platform ...
    >
    > Regards
    > Friedrich

    MCL's home platform is more like Carbon (available for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X).
    Currently MCL lacks a lot stuff, before I would say it is at home with
    Mac OS X. Probably most annoying for me would be the old style event loop,
    which causes MCL to be busy all the time - which is no good idea
    on laptops and other 'heat'-sensitive Macs. I don't know if
    MCL 5.1 will change that - one would need to ask Digitool about that.

    LispWorks ironically is much more at home on Mac OS X - it fits
    well into both the Cocoa/Aqua-world and the Unix/Terminal/X11-world.
    Of all Lisp systems on the Mac, it has the best and most complete
    development environment by far.

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