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Date:Mon Nov 18 20:28:45 1992 
Subject:Re: PD Pop 
From:Stephen Anderson 
Volume-ID:921119.03 

Among all the systems Poplog is available for, I didn't see NeXT. At
present, the NeXT has no common lisp available at all (except AKCL),
since Franz seems to have lost interest in supporting the version of
ACL that was once bundled with the machine (but is no more). I suspect
that if a reasonably priced poplog system were available for the
machine, a disproportionate number (out of the otherwise comparatively
small installed base) of users might buy it just to get the
lisp....and then learn how nice pop is, too.

This comment actually belongs in another thread, about
ease-of-learning and the utility of the system, but I'm too lazy to
make another posting:

Some years ago I installed poplog on the Sun 2's we had in the UCLA
linguistics department. The amount of pedagogy included in the system
(tutorials and a really nice interface between them and the rest of
the system) was so well done that I was able to take a class of
graduate students who barely knew how to log in (and certainly knew
NOTHING about programming), teach them to type "help help", and come
back seven or eight weeks later to find they had written serious
programs to do word-structure analysis on a variety of exotic
languages.

--Steve Anderson