Symbolics to Sun Port Questions

[RDP@ALAN.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com (Robert D. Pfeiffer)]

    Date: Wed, 12 Sep 90 08:15:39 PDT
    From: curte@beowulf.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Curt Eggemeyer)

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    2)  During this port, I am thinking of changing over to CLOS.  
    What experiences has anyone had in doing a Flavors to CLOS 
    translation?

I also had to do precisely this for a planning and scheduling system
that we developed here.  Based on my experience, I would urge you to
consider doing the conversion on the Symbolics before porting.  Load the
system Conversion Tools and then invoke the functionality (there are a
few variants of the command, and I forgot the names) from Zmacs.  I was
very pleased at how well this worked for our system and shudder to think
about how painful it would have been to do "by hand".