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The Personal Edition has several limitations: does not load init files supposed to be used with the IDE IDE quits after some hours Memory is limited can't

by lispm 10y ago

The Personal Edition has several limitations: does not load init files supposed to be used with the IDE IDE quits after some hours Memory is limited can't create applications --- Actually the Personal Edition is mostly for people to play around a bit or students doing some homework. Other than that the typical user will buy a version, which won't have the above limitations. Users also may also test a time-limited full version, before buying. People use either LispWorks or Allegro CL, then.

pnathan 10y ago
Yeah, I recall using it a bit more now. The personal edition is really a trial edition, it's not a 'low budget low features' edition, which is what I was thinking when I originally was fooling with it back then. (These days I use SBCL nearly exclusively for my CL implementation)
- lispm 10y ago
  > 'low budget low features' edition In some school/university course it would be like that. The students get a simple installer, get the IDE up and running after a few clicks and thus they don't have to learn GNU Emacs + installing Lisp infrastructure for some basic homework.