Re: compiling a Lisp source to exe

cartercc wrote:

I looked at LispWorks now, and almost fell out of my chair at the
prices. I am a student and frankly cannot afford this product. Does
the Personal Edition create exe files? The blurb says that it does not
support application delivery?

If you are a student and don't want to sell software products for a living, you don't need to create exe files. Lisp programs are traditionally deployed differently, except for shrink-wrapped software.

You can execute Lisp programs directly from within a Lisp environment. This includes compiling programs to low-level machine code and executing that, which makes this competitive with other compiled languages.

It takes a while to get used to that somewhat different interaction with a language environment, but it has strong benefits over the edit-compile-link-run cycle. Take some time to learn this, and you'll see.


Pascal

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