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Title: Distributed LISP (for m68k and MorphOS)
Post by: Dietmar on August 16, 2004, 03:36:12 AM

Distributed LISP is a new scripting language inspired by Lisp (a minimal, fast Lisp interpreter).
If you have ever written an installation script for the Commodore Installer and its Lisp-like language, you know how Lisp programs look like: a lot of parantheses but, on the bright side, no semicolons ;)

Features: implemented as library (ie can be flushed if not needed), fast bytecode compiler, cache for tokenized code. The language is Rexx-enabled so that Lisp programs can be used for automation of other applications. A script written in Distributed LISP is two to three times faster than the same script written in Rexx, on 68k platforms. Web site and download:

http://golded.dietmar-eilert.de/lisp/lisp.htm

MorphOS users can download an experimental PPC binary to replace the 68k binary in the archive (experimental in the sense that it is a stand-alone interpreter binary, not a library):

http://golded.dietmar-eilert.de/lisp/files/lisp-morphos.lzx

Distributed LISP is complemented by a Lisp mode for GoldED Studio (envLSP10), available on the GoldED web site, providing syntax highlighting and online help:

http://golded.dietmar-eilert.de/golded/files/envLSP10.lzx

Title: Re: Distributed LISP (for m68k and MorphOS)
Post by: lorddef on August 16, 2004, 06:30:53 PM

This will be interesting to look at. I've done a bit of scheme before (a lisp varient). As soon as I get an amiga to try it on I will. There will be evil brackets everywhere!