Interesting that they're still using Allegro Common Lisp. I would be interested in knowing what technical issues (if any) prevented them from migrating to other implementations.
Maybe it's not "technical issues", but features and support? Allegro CL has a proven GUI toolkit, for example, and now they moved it into the web browser.
Yes: https://cyc.com/archives/glossary/subl/
Also see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMiaCtOzV0
Interesting that they're still using Allegro Common Lisp. I would be interested in knowing what technical issues (if any) prevented them from migrating to other implementations.
Maybe it's not "technical issues", but features and support? Allegro CL has a proven GUI toolkit, for example, and now they moved it into the web browser.
FYI: here are the release notes of the recently release Allegro CL 11.0: https://franz.com/support/documentation/current/release-note...
IIRC, Cyc gets delivered on other platforms&languages (C, JVM, ... ?). Would be interesting to know what they use for deployment/delivery.
Franz has a nice RDF triple store. No idea if Cyc uses it but if so that could be a factor.
Allegro has an amazing UI and debugger. Like seriously, every alternative is janky experience that should be embarrassed to exist.
Out of curiosity, which implementation(s) did you have in mind and why would it be desirable to migrate a large project there?
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