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LispWorks Features

LispWorks offers a number of extensions to the ANSI Common Lisp language standard. The basic extensions such as the CAPI and the Foreign Language Interface are included in every variant of LispWorks on all platforms. Other features and libraries are available only as indicated in the tables below.

LispWorks 5.1 Features by Edition and Platform

Feature
LispWorks Edition Platform
Personal Professional Enterprise Windows  Linux  Mac OS X FreeBSD
CAPI portable GUI toolkit
Universal binaries
 
 
 
Common LispWorks IDE
Application Builder tool
 
Interface Builder tool
 
 
Foreign Language Interface
Internationalization through Unicode
Multiprocessing using native threads
Programmer-extensible streams
TCP socket streams
Object finalization
Weak pointers, weak hash tables
Optimized application delivery
 
Dynamic library delivery
 
Applications free of charge
 
Editor source code
 
Metaobject Protocol
KnowledgeWorks® and Prolog
 
 
CLIM 2.0
 
Common SQL (ODBC interface)
 
 
 
Common SQL (Oracle OCI interface)
 
 
 
Common SQL (MySQL interface)
 
 
Common SQL (PostgreSQL interface)
 
 
Objective-C/Cocoa FLI
 
 
 
Drag and drop
 
 
Use ActiveX components
 
 
 
LispWorks as ActiveX control
 
 
 
 
OpenSSL interface
LispWorks ORB
 
 
Serial Port interface
 
 
 
COM server and client interface
 
 
 
Direct Data Exchange (DDE)
 
 
 
Searchable HTML Documentation

= Supported
= Supported for X11/Motif only
= Supported on Intel hardware only

LispWorks for UNIX 5.1 Features

Feature
Product Platform
LispWorks
Developer
Available as
add-on
SPARC
Solaris
HP-PA
HP-UX
CAPI portable GUI toolkit
 
Universal binaries
 
 
 
 
Common LispWorks IDE
 
Application Builder tool
 
Interface Builder tool
 
 
 
 
Foreign Language Interface
 
Internationalization through Unicode
 
Lisp Multiprocessing
 
Programmer-extensible Streams
 
TCP socket streams
 
Object finalization
 
Weak pointers, weak hash tables
 
Optimized application delivery
 
Dynamic library delivery
 
 
 
 
Applications free of charge  
Editor source code  
Metaobject Protocol
 
KnowledgeWorks® and Prolog
 
CLIM 2.0
 
Common SQL (ODBC interface)
 
Common SQL (Oracle OCI interface)
 
Common SQL (MySQL interface)
 
Common SQL (PostgreSQL interface)
 
Objective-C/Cocoa FLI
 
 
 
 
Drag and drop
 
 
 
 
Use ActiveX components
 
 
 
 
LispWorks as ActiveX control
 
 
 
 
OpenSSL interface
 
LispWorks ORB
 
Serial Port interface
 
 
 
 
COM server and client interface
 
 
 
 
Direct Data Exchange (DDE)
 
 
 
 
Searchable HTML Documentation
 

= Supported


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