Porting from Common Lisp with Flavors to C++

While Lisp workstations provide a wonderfully productive development environment, they are expensive, often forcing the choice of another target machine for deployment. This paper describes some of the concerns and problems faced when porting a large (2000 line) system from the Texas Instrument Explorer workstation to a SUN/3. In each case an object oriented language was used, Common Lisp with Flavors on the TI and C++ on the SUN.