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authorhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org>1999-09-18 09:43:05 +0800
committerhoek <hoek@FreeBSD.org>1999-09-18 09:43:05 +0800
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Fix a mis-use of Ie. Detorture the English.
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-CMUCL is the CMU implementation of Common Lisp. This is a 18a
-prerelease, probably the most stable version to get for FreeBSD. For
-further information see http://www.cons.org/cmucl/
+CMUCL is the CMU implementation of Common Lisp. This is the 18a
+prerelease, probably the most stable version to get for FreeBSD.
First-aid documentation is in the manpages lisp(1) and cmucl(1) and
via the normal Common Lisp documentation runtime functions (describe
-...) (documentation ...) and (apropos ...). There is a real user
-manual that is currently adopted to 18a. See the homepage for
-pointers, we have GNU info, postscript and initial HTML files.
+...) (documentation ...) and (apropos ...). The WWW homepage contains
+a pointer to a real user manual adopted for 18a.
CMUCL's strength in comparison with other Lisp systems (or dynamic
-languages in general) is its highly optimizing compiler. If you know
+languages in general) is its highly optimizing compiler. If you know
how to write efficient Common Lisp code, you are free of unwanted
-memory allocation, type checks, indirections to objects. And CMUCL
-helps you to write efficient Common Lisp, it generates very
+memory allocation, type checks, indirections to objects. CMUCL
+helps you to write efficient Common Lisp --- it generates very
informative warning messages about code constructs that prevent
compilation to efficient code.
Optional packages for graphical user interfaces and other Common Lisp
-applications and libraries (I.e. "Hemlock" Editor) are are on
-ftp://ftp2.cons.org/pub/languages/lisp/cmucl/binaries/ (FreeBSD-Binaries) and
-ftp://ftp2.cons.org/pub/languages/lisp/cmucl/ports/ (source)
+applications and libraries (Eg. the "Hemlock" Editor) are are on
+ftp://ftp2.cons.org/pub/languages/lisp/cmucl/binaries/ (FreeBSD-Binaries)
+and ftp://ftp2.cons.org/pub/languages/lisp/cmucl/ports/ (source).
-Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
WWW: http://www.cons.org/cmucl/
+
+- Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>