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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Looking for MACLSP
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In article <gsharp.2.0030C335@primenet.com> gsharp@primenet.com (Greg Sharp) writes:
>I am looking for a version of Lisp called "MACLSP" - it was around in the 
>early seventies.  Is there a current flavor of Lisp that comes close to this 
>(has statements like "FEXPR" and "declare")?

For many things, Common Lisp will work fairly well, though some
compatibility code will almost certainly be needed.  FEXPRs can
be handled by defining a macro paired with a function (and it's
not very hard to write a macro that produces the 2 definitions).

Another possibility is Franz Lisp.  It's closer to MacLisp but
not very widely available these days.  I have a version for PCs
running FreeBSD/NetBSD/etc.  See URL

   http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk:80/~jeff/franz-for-386.html

-- jeff
