CompuServe Messages

Sorry, Tony, if I ruffled your feathers. My point was that although the Xlisp interpreter was fine to play around with, I don't think that it will be useful in creating stand-alone DOS applications, am I right? For this one would need a compiler. Part of the usefulness *I* found in AutoLisp is that it has direct links into AutoCAD's variables and entities. Often this can be mistaken for a usefulness outside of AutoCAD — I know I did, there was even one time when I wrote a lisp routine to do a sorted list of drawings from a directory — not thinking that a simple FOR EACH command in DOS would do the same thing… without having to load AutoCAD to run a Lisp routine! <sheepish grin> As to Borland not making a Lisp Compiler — I may have been in error, I will recheck their four-page spreads in _Computer Language_ and in _AI Expert_…. They DO make a prolog compiler, and I may have assumed that there was a Lisp Compiler also. I will henceforth preface my comments as to the availability with references to advertisements by the companies. Truce? Brian