Testers wanted: Poplog (pop11,common lisp, prolog, ML) on PC+Darwin

From: Aaron Sloman (A.Sloman_at_cs.bham.ac.uk)
Date: 10/22/04

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    Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:24:50 +0000 (UTC)

    Poplog is being ported to Apple OSX on Power PC.

    As a first step, PC Linux Poplog has been ported to PC+Darwin.
    Testers are needed for this.

    The next step will be PPC+Linux, to be followed by PPC+OSX.

    Anyone who is willing to test the PC+Darwin version of poplog can find
    sources and binaries here:

        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/darwin+pc/

    the contents are
        AREADME.txt
            Overview of contents

        PoplogDarwinReleaseNotes.txt
            Poplog Darwin Release Notes
            2177 Bytes

        PoplogPortToDarwin.rtf
            22188 bytes
            Report on Poplog Port to Darwin (about the modified sources)
        also available as
            PoplogPortToDarwin.html
            24201 bytes

            PoplogPortToDarwin.pdf
            85370 bytes

        darwin-pc-poplog.tar.gz
            28,953,324 bytes
            Tar file containing Poplog for Darwin
            Including local files and saved images.

        darwin-pc-poplog/
            About 91 Mbytes
            Unpacked tar file for anyone who wishes to browse the
                changed sources
            NB These two files are both symbolic links:
                darwin-pc-poplog/current.poplog/
                darwin-pc-poplog/v15.53/
            to
                darwin-pc-poplog/v15.53e/

    Poplog is a free, open source, software development platform designed
    for teaching and research in AI and other fields that can benefit from
    exploratory rapid prototyping. It is described here:

        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/poplog.info.html
        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html

    The core language, Pop11, is similar in power to Common lisp, but
    uses a more conventional syntax. Pop11 is introduced here

        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/primer/START.html

    Pop11 is incrementally compiled to machine code. Since the compiler
    routines have to be part of the run time system they have been made
    available to users. On this basis it proved possible to provide
    incremental compilers also for Common Lisp, Prolog, and Standard ML.
    Other languages can also be implemented.

    It's also possible to use the same techniques to extend Pop11.
    This is used in the agent development toolkit described here
        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/packages/simagent.html

    Poplog provides 2-D interactive graphics based on the X window system,
    and some examples are available here
        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/figs/simagent

    Information about porting and rebuilding poplog is here
        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/sysdoc/

    Anyone who attempts to test poplog on Darwin and has questions
    can post to comp.lang.pop, the newsgroup described here
        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/comp.lang.pop.faq.html

    Thanks for your help
    Aaron
    ====
    Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
    JOBS AVAILABLE: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/
    PAPERS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/ (also talks in /talks )
    FREE BOOK: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/crp/
    FREE TOOLS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/packages/simagent.html

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