"Robert J. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LISP has a very well-defined ANSI specification. Lots of different > people have written LISPs, from Franz to Steel Bank to GNU to... etc. > Each of these competes with the others on different grounds; some are > purely interpreted (ala CLISP), some are compiled (CMUCL), some are... > etc. They all implement substantially the same language, but the > plethora of different implementations has been a tremendous boon for > the development of efficient compilers, interpreters and garbage > collectors.
It's been a while since I've dabbled in lisp, but my recollection is that the plethora of different implementations has also meant that portability is a fantasy. I dread the day that competing Python implementations spring up. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
