Compiler house Lucid Inc, Menlo Park, California, has won a contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to integrate Lisp, C and C++ environments for various image-understanding projects currently under way. The company says it is also taking control of the Common Lisp interface manager for Apple Computer Inc Macintosh computers and is to become an Apple value-added reseller for Macintosh Common Lisp. The interface, MacCLIM, which it will distribute and support, comes from International Lisp Associates Inc and costs $500 Macintosh Common Lisp, which it will support, is Apple’s implementation of the language and also costs $500. Without pausing for breath, Lucid says that it has also signed with Artificial Technologies Inc, Elmsford, New York, to market and support the consulting firm’s Lips-based tools – including a Motif-based toolkit – and has released XLT, a set of X Window-based tools for its own Common Lisp environment on Sun Microsystems Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp Unix workstations.
