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Lispbox - lisp in a box

27 points by j_baker 17y ago

abstractbill 17y 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 17y 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 17y ago
  Franz will be releasing a new one next week based on the just-about-to-be-released Allegro CL 8.2.
  - kib2 17y ago
    Cool; always free ? Just noticed something funny: go on http://www.franz.com/ http://www.franz.com/ and click the Korean/French flags...weird effect!
regularfry 17y ago
Makes me wonder what it would take to get clozure supported on Windows.
- smanek 17y 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 17y 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)
  - regularfry 17y 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 17y 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 17y 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 http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html
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francoisdevlin 17y ago
There's also ClojureBox, if you're so inclined. http://clojure.bighugh.com/ http://clojure.bighugh.com/
raju 17y ago
On a related note - for windows users, if you want to play with Clojure - Clojure Box - http://clojure.bighugh.com/ http://clojure.bighugh.com/
- ShardPhoenix 17y 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 17y ago
I'd like to see a Justin Timberlake version of this now.
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27 points by j_baker 17y 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 17y 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 17y ago
Franz will be releasing a new one next week based on the just-about-to-be-released Allegro CL 8.2.
- kib2 17y ago
  Cool; always free ? Just noticed something funny: go on http://www.franz.com/ http://www.franz.com/ and click the Korean/French flags...weird effect!

regularfry 17y ago

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

smanek 17y 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 17y 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)
- regularfry 17y 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 17y 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 17y 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 http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html

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francoisdevlin 17y ago

There's also ClojureBox, if you're so inclined. http://clojure.bighugh.com/ http://clojure.bighugh.com/

raju 17y ago

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

ShardPhoenix 17y 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 17y ago

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

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