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May be you can share what Lisp image you use? I'm always open to Lisp development and see what's possible.

I went through CLisp and SBCL for Windows, but decided against SBCL due to its large runtime image.



I have the LispWorks 64bit Enterprise Edition. It does provide Unicode, concurrent threads, database access, networking, GUI lib, ... Some of the other stuff I have loaded as libraries. My base image with software loaded is probably larger than SBCL's but it also contains more stuff.

LispWorks runs also nicely under Windows.

Possible drawback: it is commercial and not open source.


Possible drawback: it is commercial and not open source.

I think that's the main reason. $5000 does buy a lot of libraries.


Not only that. It buys you one of the fastest Lisp implementations, which runs nicely on Windows, Linux and Mac - everywhere with native GUI. Windows isn't that well supported by open source Lisps. The commercial ones are much better in that respect. Though, for me the Mac OS X support is more important, since I'm also not a regular Windows user.


Yes. Money buys you time.


You might want to also have a look at ClozureCL for Windows[1]. It's very small and has some other nice features (OS level thread support, unicode, ...).

[1] http://www.clozure.com/clozurecl.html




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