1.1 LispWorks Editions

LispWorks is available in several product editions on desktop platforms.

The main differences between the editions are outlined below. Further information can be found at:

1.1.1 Personal Edition

LispWorks Personal Edition allows you to explore a fully-enabled Common Lisp programming environment and to develop small- to medium-scale programs for personal and academic use. It includes:

• Native graphical IDE.
• Full Common Lisp compiler.
• COM/Automation API on Microsoft Windows.

LispWorks Personal Edition has several limitations. These are:

• A heap size limit
• A time limit of 5 hours for each session.
• The functions save-image, deliver, and load-all-patches are not available.
• Initialization files are not available.
• HobbyistDV, Professional and Enterprise Edition module loading is not included.

LispWorks Personal Edition has no license fee. Download it from:

1.1.2 Hobbyist Edition

LispWorks 8.0 Hobbyist Edition is available to individual licensees for non-commercial and non-academic use. It is a fully-functional Common Lisp IDE without most of the limitations of the Personal Edition:

• No heap size limit.
• No session time limit.
• The functions save-image and load-all-patches are available.
• Initialization files are available.

HobbyistDV, Professional and Enterprise Edition module loading is not included. In particular, the function deliver is omitted so runtimes cannot be generated.

1.1.3 HobbyistDV Edition

LispWorks 8.0 HobbyistDV Edition is available to individual licensees for non-commercial and non-academic use. It has all the features of the Hobbyist Edition plus:

• The function deliver allowing generation of non-commercial end-user applications and libraries.

1.1.4 Professional Edition

LispWorks 8.0 Professional Edition includes all the features of the HobbyistDV Edition plus:

• Fully supported commercial product.
• Delivery of commercial end-user applications and libraries.
• CLIM 2.0 on X11/Motif and Windows.
• 30-day free "Getting Started" technical support.

1.1.5 Enterprise Edition

LispWorks 8.0 Enterprise Edition provides further support for the software needs of the modern enterprise. It has all the features of the Professional Edition plus:

• Database access through the Common SQL interface.
• Portable distributed computing through CORBA.
• Expert systems programming through KnowledgeWorks and embedded Prolog compiler.

On most platforms you can choose either the 32-bit or 64-bit implementation of LispWorks. These implementations are licensed separately.