MCL vs. Allegro?

[bohrer@mcc.com (Bill Bohrer)]

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   I am interested in porting a large application in Lucid (with minimal
   usage of CLOS) to the Macintosh and wanted to know basically why
   people have gone with MCL over Allegro (or other available Lisps, for
   that matter).

   Thank you for any comments/suggestions,

   Jonathan



   Jonathan Kaye, thrill-seeking graduate student
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't MCL the only CLtL2 lisp with clos
available for the MAC? If you have a MAC and need lisp that conforms
to CLtL2, with CLOS, I'm pretty sure you only HAVE one choice.

I'm awful sure Allegro doesn't have 4.0 for anything other than Sparcs;
while it's a swell lisp, it's useless if you need to support myriad
architectures like we do here.

We haven't gotten any network software for the mac that actually
works, so I can't compare MCL to allegro, or lucid, since we've not
yet been able to port our code that runs on allegro4.1 and lucid4.0 to
MCL


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