C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Stephen Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No one, to my knowledge, is rewriting noweb or some equivalent in > > Lisp. > > He's referring to cl-web, I believe.
Duh, of course. Sorry Cliff! Temporary blackout, I belive. > If I understand correctly from previous posts, in this context "ghetto" > is being used to describe a large body of tools that are divorced from > mainstream directions being taken by the open source community. > Centering on Lisp already triggers some of those complaints, and Bill's > concern (if I understand correctly) is that if we home-grow too much we > will end up not being able to grow with the open source world and be > left behind with a bunch of non-standard tools no one wants to take the > time to understand. Ok. I recall similar notions. New tools that solve new problems are always non-standard by definition. I just never connected `ghetto' with that perspective. > Obviously I disagree that this is what will happen - Lisp I don't > regard as a ghetto and ASDF is the standard solution within the Lisp > world. It seems to be well designed and flexible. And the goal is to > develop tools such that given a working Lisp environment users and > developers will be able to focus on the Algebra without worrying about > the underlying tools. If they MUST work with them, I would like them > to be literate all the way down - no dark corners to get into trouble > with. But that's again just me. Your certainly not alone :) Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
