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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Allegro Common Lisp
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Date: 17 Aug 89 17:23:01 GMT
References: <1989Aug17.155858.13906@cs.rochester.edu>
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In article <1989Aug17.155858.13906@cs.rochester.edu>, miller@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU
(Brad Miller) writes:
> CLOS and version 18 of Kent Pitmans condition system were accepted last
> summer by X3J13... when will ACL support them?

You can buy PCL (Portable Common Loops from Xerox--most of CLOS) from APDA.
Don't know about the condition system.

> Does ACL support logical pathnames?

Yes.

> What is the position on the emerging CLIM standard? How compatible is the
> existing window system with it? Will they support it if it is adopted?

Don't know about the last--you can deal with windows in ACL in two ways.
The normal way is to use the built-in window handling code, which is
based on Object Lisp (*not* CLOS), and works fairly well.  However, you
also have complete "raw" toolbox access, so it shouldn't be too bad to
port Common Windows or CLIM to ACL.

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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