From: Donald H. Mitchell

Subject: Re: ACL to MCL

Date: 1996-10-16 13:27

Steve Davis wrote:
> > Are there any examples of [converting?] Allegro Common Graphics programs to > Macintosh Common Lisp.
We started out trying to develop and use a portable substrate between ACLWin and MCL but quickly found that MCL's view model could not translate efficiently to the PC: it consumed too many resources, too much memory, and was slow. We may have chosen a bad system model for the substrate, but I believe the strong OO-stream nature of MCL's views will be difficult to emulate [although we still quasi-emulate them via much shallower and only partially portable macros.] -- Donald H. Mitchell <pgh.net at dhm> Proactive Solutions, Inc. 412.835.2410 5858 Horseshoe Dr. 412.835.2411 (fax) Bethel Park, PA 15102