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Subject: IQLISP
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Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 23:22:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 16 23:22:00 1983
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From:  Richard R. Shiffman 

IQLISP takes 1.4 seconds to calculate 100! by the standard recursive
LISP function. IQLISP has smallp's and bignum's for integers.  The
biggest factorial IQLISP will handle is 706!  I think all the digits
are correct.

IQLISP has a slightly different defining form than MACLISP or
INTERLISP, although every different version of LISP has these
differences.  IQLISP supports LAMBDAs, NLAMBDAs, and MACROs.  The
system has a pretty printer, a structure editor, a debugger package,
and an assembler.  There seems to be the hooks for writing a compiler.
I haven't found out about its FUNARG support yet.

The IBM PC has a big enough address space to make IQLISP really
useful.  The INTERLISP I have for my Atari-800 is just a toy, since
you can't do any serious LISP programming with only 64K bytes.

	Rick