> I do not see any reason why a GUI for Axiom has to be written in > Lisp. Why not write a GUI for Axiom in Python or Java or C++? Why does > every GUI have to be portable? Why should there be only one GUI or > even a canonical GUI anyway?
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I am not trying to create any kind of GUI. I'm trying to make a portable front end for the graphics code. My experience with many years of porting, which makes up probably half of my career, is that C programs are probably the least portable. This is especially true of C programs that draw lines. Lisp programs are amazingly portable. It took all of 5 minutes to move my work project (a 20k+ line lisp porgram) from Linux to Windows. I'm looking for a way to draw a colored line in a window on all of the existing platforms from Lisp. Given this I can re-implement the graphics portion of Axiom and make it run everywhere. I need a lisp program that can open a window on Linux and Windows and draw a colored line using common code. Surely this must be possible. t _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
