[OT] LISPs (was: Re: language choices)

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On 9/30/06, Andreas Franke <afranke at ags.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
>
> > May I ask which LISP variant are you using/would you recommend?
>
> We are using both the commercial Allegro (though not the latest
> version) and CMUCL (free, 18e and the latest 19c, the latter
> having a stricter compiler), and we would like to port to SBCL,
> a fork of CMUCL with a windows port under construction.
> They all have multiprocessing, networking, and a good compiler;
> CMUCL does not have unicode support.
>
> For getting used to LISP, I'd recommend clisp as a very user-friendly
> system.
>
> All of them may fail on some other of your requirements, though...
>
> Resources:
> http://www.cliki.net/
> http://clisp.cons.org/
> http://www.cons.org/cmucl/
> http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/
>
> HTH,

Thanks a lot! It does help.

Best,

R.











> Andreas
>
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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Bioinformatics Unit
Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
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