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> I am looking at purchasing an Amiga, unfortunatly, I dont know
> very much about them. I want to be able to do a reasonable amount
> of programming in both C and Lisp, and I'd like color.
As far as languages are concerned, Aztec-C from Manx seems to be
the more popular of the two currently available C compilers; I've
been using it for about a year now, and I'm reasonably well pleased.
Check out some of the other notes in this file for further opinions.
With regard to Lisp, you probably want to stay away from
the Commodore/Metacomco Cambridge Lisp altogether. It was
described recently on USENET as: "...resembling a graduate
programming class project...an embarassment to the programmers
who worked on it..." According to the reviewer, the "new"
version (Lisp 1.3) is in fact worse than the old one. On top
of all that, it's a VERY non-standard dialect and it also has
essestially NO interface to the Amiga system routines.
There is, however, a PD item called XLISP which might suit your
needs if you're just playing around; it's interpreted only (not
compiled), so it's SLOW. But it has the advantage of being free,
fairly well-supported, and kind-of Common Lisp-like. It's available
on PeopleLink and other BBS's.
Regards
Art
BOUNDED CHAOTIC MIXING PRODUCES STRANGE STABILITIES...
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| Thanks, also, does anyone know what the differences between the
different Amiga's are? (the 500, 1000 and 2000, though I gather
the 2000 isnt out yet?)
Thanks
-Ed.
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