Hi everybody,

 

We have made Corman Lisp 2.0 available for download at the Corman Lisp web site:

www.cormanlisp.com

 

The download page:

http://cormanlisp.com/download.html

 

You can find the release notes here:

http://cormanlisp.com/CormanLisp/CormanLisp_2_0_Release_notes.txt

 

We apologize for the delay in this release. Earlier this year we formed a business,

Corman Technologies, to better support Corman Lisp development and marketing.

There seemed to be an unending number of details and things to do, accounts to

be set up, etc. relating to this. We believe we are now in a position to offer better

support, rapid integration of new features, and standards compatibility than we were

able to in the past.

 

We are looking forward to the International Lisp Conference

 

http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/

 

beginning Oct. 27. We are pleased to be able to announce general availability of

Corman Lisp 2.0 at this conference. As well, we have notified the J13 Common

Lisp standards committee of our intent to become a voting member. We hope to

contribute to the advancement of the standard, in particular to standardizing threads,

sockets, and other areas we feel the standard is significantly missing.

With the addition of Corman Technologies, we have been told by a committee

representative from Franz that there will be enough voting members to move the

standard along.

 

Much of the significant work in Corman Lisp 2.0 involved enhancements to the threading

technology. This was needed to enable Corman Lisp DLLs to integrate seamlessly into

existing applications. This will be a subject of my talk at the lisp conference. I hope many

of you will be able to make it. If not, I plan to post my presentation slides at

cormanlisp.com.

 

I believe that Corman Lisp 2.0 provides sufficient DLL capabilities to create plug-ins

for some popular applications, such as products by Adobe, Microsoft and others.

We have not yet tried creating plug-ins yet, and plan to do some work in this area soon.

We plan to post some sample plug-ins for various applications, written in Corman Lisp,

in the near future. If you want to do any work with DLLs, we recommend using

Visual Studio.NET, which is available from Microsoft. The .NET part of it is not necessary,

but the C and C++ compiler and development environment will provide all the tools

you need to build and debug client applications which use Corman Lisp DLLs. Other

platforms may be used, but we will not necessarily be able to offer support for these

platforms.

 

Part of our business strategy is to try to achieve profitability for the Corman

Lisp products. The only way we have of doing this, for now, is by selling

licenses. We have tried to keep the license price low, and to offer significant

capabilities even for users who do not choose to purchase a license. However,

beginning with this release, some features will only be fully enabled for

registered users. The DLL generation is supported for licensed users only.

Any user may compile DLLs, but DLLs compiled without a valid registration

will periodically remind the user (using the client application, that loads the

DLL) that the DLL is made from an unlicensed copy of Corman Lisp. We also

expect to increase the price of a Corman Lisp license (by around 25%)

beginning in December. Between now and November 30, the price

will remain at US $200.

 

A large amount of effort and expense has gone into development of Corman Lisp, and

we have been increasing this in the past year. Corman Lisp 2.0 represents many

significant improvements, in all areas:  IDE, application deployment, embedded

capabilities, ansi compatibility, compiler, etc. Please download Corman Lisp 2.0 and

let us know what you think about it.

 

Please note that you will be required to submit a valid e-mail address when you download

the install program. A password will be e-mailed to you which may be used to run the

install program. We have done this to help us to obtain better information about who has

downloaded the product and to allow us to maintain a private, internal e-mail list. We will

not use this e-mail address for any other purpose, or share it with anybody.

 

Thanks all for your interest and support.

 

Sincerely,

 

Roger Corman

President, Corman Technologies