Lispbox - lisp in a box

by j_baker • 16 years ago

27 14 16 years ago

AFAIK, this isn't maintained anymore. Check the version numbers for the various Lisps - they all look quite old to me, and the copyright notice at the bottom of the page says 2005.

pchristensen• 16 years ago

That is correct - for instance, the version of SBCL in Lispbox is 0.9.7, and the most recent released version is 1.0.35.

dkl• 16 years ago

Franz will be releasing a new one next week based on the just-about-to-be-released Allegro CL 8.2.

kib2• 16 years ago

Cool; always free ?

Just noticed something funny: go on http://www.franz.com/ and click the Korean/French flags...weird effect!

regularfry2• 16 years ago

Makes me wonder what it would take to get clozure supported on Windows.

smanek• 16 years ago

As far as I know, it is supported (get it here: ftp://ftp.clozure.com/pub/release/1.4/ccl-1.4-windows.zip).

Never personally tested it though (Mac + Linux guy), so take this with a grain of salt.

malkia• 16 years ago

ClozureCL (ccl) works on Windows.

There is just one issue - the 32-bit version works fine on 32-bit machines, but not on 64-bit ones (this is due to something int he CCL kernel, relying on the TLB settings, it's being done through undocumented Windows functions).

A 64-bit CCL works fine on 64-bit machine (Tested on my Vista 64 Business edition) And a 32-bit one also works fine on a 32-bit machine (tested with XP Home edition)

I myself decide to stay more with Lispworks 6.0 for a while, because supporting more than one lisp seemed hard to me (this way I can totally use the Lispworks FLI, and not bother about CFFI and others). Later if the project seems worth anything, it could be ported.

A cool experiment, and rather bizzare one, is using the Cocotron (Cocoa on Windows and Linux) with CCL (I think the 32-bit one). But it's a bit tricky to get it working - you need to compile Foundation.dll and AppKit.dll and place them in the right folders.

The cool thing about CCL - is the people :) I actually donated $1000 for the CLL project (they were in $20000 to develop the GUI)

regularfry2• 16 years ago

"ClozureCL (ccl) works on Windows."

I know. It's not supported out-of-the-box with lispbox, though, which is what I was getting at.

zandorg• 16 years ago

I tried to use Emacs under Windows, but it just took forever to render a simple window of text! This can't be normal, I can't figure out how a lengthy REPL session can fail to scroll faster than molasses.

astine• 16 years ago

That's definitely not normal. I don't know about your settup, but for me a defalt install of Emacs on Windows is snappier than most Windows programs. This is the case even when running Slime or another interpreter.

If you're interested, there is a nice build patched varienat of emacs for Windows called EmacsW32: http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html

francoisdevlin• 16 years ago

There's also ClojureBox, if you're so inclined.

http://clojure.bighugh.com/

raju• 16 years ago

On a related note - for windows users, if you want to play with Clojure - Clojure Box - http://clojure.bighugh.com/

ShardPhoenix• 16 years ago

Ok, I can figure out how to evaluate an expression, but how do I just run a file like a normal program, with console output, etc?

I think these cutting edge programming languages would be a lot more popular if they weren't so damn hard to get started in. A one-step installer is a nice start, but then they have to foist Emacs upon you.

archon810• 16 years ago

I'd like to see a Justin Timberlake version of this now.

Lispbox - lisp in a box

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