scheme vs common lisp

[Mike McDonald]

>To: lispos@math.gatech.edu
>Subject: Re: scheme vs common lisp 
>Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 19:57:08 -0600
>From: Lyn A Headley <laheadle@midway.uchicago.edu>
>
>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike McDonald <mikemac@teleport.com> writes:
>
>
>    Mike>   I don't know where people get this idea that CMUCL is
>    Mike> "barely" supported.
>
>I got the idea from the announcement for CMUCL 17f, at
>
>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/local/mosaic/common/omega/Web/groups/AI/lang/lisp/impl/cmucl/announce.txt
>
>Although the group lives on (and is working on Dylan/Gwydion), the CMU Common
>Lisp project is no longer funded, so only minimal CL support is being done at
>CMU. 

  Try www.cons.org.


>I think it's great that you love CMUCL so much.  I'm sure it's a fine
>system and I wish you good luck with your HPUX port.  However, it is
>a less appropriate choice for crafting a lisp OS than RScheme.

  That's why we still have a "massive divergence" of options.

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com