Intel LISP Compiler?

[postaquestion]

I would like to know why Intel doesn't make a specificLISP or CommonLISP compiler, for this language is very abstract and solves problems easily and sometimes better than Fortran.

The greatest problem of this language is the compiler's performance and the performance of the Intel Fortran Compiler is unreachable. If you can make a wonderful compiler for Fortran, you can do the same for LISP.

I would like to buy a LISP compiler made by Intel.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

There are hundreds, if not thousands of really good programming languages out there. LISP is a remarkable language and in the 70s and 80s was very popular, especially among the AI crowd and in universities. It fell out of fashion in the 90s but still has a place in the heart of many programmers (myself included - one of my college programming assignments was to write a complete LISP interpreter in SNOBOL4 and I later developed a tutorial on LISP for the PLATO IV CAI system.)

We're glad that you like our Fortran compiler - we focus on Fortran and C/C++ because those are the two languages most heavily used by those into High Performance Computing. While I'm sure that we could do a good job on a LISP interpreter (LISP doesn't really compile well), the market for that is quite small and we would not be able to add as much value as we can with Fortran and C/C++. Sadly, our resources are not unlimited and we cannot take on all of the interesting projects that come our way.

Thanks for thinking of us, but at this time we're going to "stick to our knitting" and do what we do best.

[Victor_R_]

Thank you very much.

Victor

[w_spector]

Steve,

As an ex-PLATO author, have you checked out http://www.cyber1.org?

W.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I think I may have run across that in the past, and I did have an email exchange with Brian Dear (platopeople.com).