Re:Corman Lisp sources are now available
by jarcane on Monday January 05, 2015 @09:28AM
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Awesome. Here's hoping someone can clean this up and get it building with VS2013. It would be amazing to have a Windows-native free/OSS CL. Neither Allegro or LW are truly free; their "free" tools have pretty limiting restrictions on how they can be used, which mostly just leaves one with SBCL and making do with libraries for anything Windows-based (of which I'm not even sure there are many).
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My fork (https://github.com/slahn/cormanlisp) builds under VS2013, and compiles the initial image successfully.
The IDE starts up, but I havn't tested it in a meaningful way yet.
Note that since the GUI uses MFC without unicode, you need VS premium or higher to compile.
> Note that since the GUI uses MFC without unicode, you need VS premium or higher to compile.
FWIW, I was able to compile it using "Visual Studio Community 2013" after installing the Multibyte MFC Library http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4077...
Oh, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251007.aspx says specifically that you need professional, premium or ultimate.
Glad to learn I was wrong!
Re:Corman Lisp sources are now available
by zachbeane on Monday January 05, 2015 @03:52PM
(#8841070)
Cool!
It would be interesting to see how far it gets on the ANSI test suite from http://www.cliki.net/GCL%20ANSI%20Test%20Suite
Re:Corman Lisp sources are now available
by zachbeane on Monday January 05, 2015 @09:38AM
(#8838949)
I think it's pretty unlikely that this will be made to work in a modern environment in a useful way. I think the primary benefit will be historical interest and possibly the reuse of some of the component parts.
http://lispblog.xach.com/post/107215169193/corman-lisp-sourc... has some more context. I'd have posted it myself directly, but xach.com is blacklisted from HN.
> I'd have posted it myself directly, but xach.com is blacklisted from HN.
Looks like this might be the cause:
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<head>
<title>Hacker News User Affinity Graph</title>
<head>
<body style='font-size: 89%; font-family: sans serif'>
<div style='width: 450px;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto'>
<h1>Hacker News User Affinity Graph</h1>
<p>What users on <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/">Hacker
News</a> have voting behaviors most similar to yours?
<p>[dead]
<p>You can fake votes on Hacker News if you know your visitor's Hacker
News username. An easy way to get it is to trick them into thinking
they'll get a pretty graphic for providing it. I don't know if this
issue will be fixed, but it's not a good idea to give out your Hacker
News username to random websites until it is.
Maybe ask dang to unblock you?
> I'd have posted it myself directly, but xach.com is blacklisted from HN.
Strange... should be changed...
The ban on xach.com was removed a few weeks ago.
Can we get the URL changed then please, the context really helps.
Sure. Done.
Thanks!
Thank you!
That's sad to hear, but I suppose it's understandable. Hopefully someone can at least get some use out of it, and kudos for encouraging him to release it nonetheless (And to Roger Corman of course for agreeing).
Clozure Common Lisp (http://ccl.clozure.com) runs on Windows and it's free (LGPL).
I thought it might be called "clojure".
And it runs on the Java Virtual Machine with easy linking to Java libraries.
I have not programmed much in it to know whether it contains most of Common LISP.
No, Clozure Common Lisp is an implenentation of Common Lisp that runs on Windows, Linux and OSX. Clojure is a different language that targets the JVM and it's very different from Common Lisp.
I hear Clozure works well on Windows (64?).
Yup, CCL works very well, while SBCL (I think) still has serious problems with Windows in general. I generally use SBCL on my Linux machines and CCL on Windows ones, as the other alternatives (e.g. CLISP) are painfully slow.
Re:Corman Lisp sources are now available
by avodonosov on Monday January 05, 2015 @02:35PM
(#8840620)
For Windows I prefer CCL