On Nov 15, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Pascal J.Bourguignon wrote:
> Arthur Lemmens writes: >> Mikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Again, the big missing features seem to be Unicode support and >>> Win32 support. >> >> If "Win32 support" means "runs on Win32 systems", then I think CLisp >> has both Unicode and Win32 support. If "Win32 support" means "a >> usable >> interface to a reasonable subset of the Win32 API", my impression is >> that no open source Lisp has this. (But I've never used CLisp or SBCL >> or CMUCL, so please ignore me if I'm talking nonsense.) > > I don't use MS-Windows, but clisp has a complete FFI that should allow > you to access the Win32 API. Yes; I am soliciting discussion on the group mailing list about whether CLISP can perform well enough. In the old days of SK8, certain functions were sometimes written in LAP to make them fast enough, so there is some skepticism about a bytecode implementation. --me
