Hi, I'm John Pallister, from Wellington, New Zealand. By background is summarised at [1] for anyone who's interested. I came across this list via lemonodor [2]; I don't have time to read c.l.l.
Anyway, I'm interested in the "implementation convergence" aspect of the CL Gardeners manifesto. I will be starting a large, paid-for Lisp project next year, and I plan to use Lispworks and Corman Lisp on Windows. I'm interested in doing some work on the latter in order to (a) learn more about the internals of a Common Lisp system, and (b) make it more "convergent". To that end, I have a list of projects I want to tackle (although I've been too busy to start any of them yet): 1. Set up a patches page listing (or indeed a repository containing) all the sets of patches people have prepared for Corman Lisp. 2. Install Paul Dietz's GCL ANSI test suite and run it against Corman Lisp. 3. Try to run Pascal Costanza's CLOS feature tests against Corman Lisp. 4. Try to port Pascal's Closer to MOP compatibility layer to Corman Lisp. 5. Get Corman Lisp to compile under GCC/MinGW, verified by the GCL ANSI test suite. So, if anyone else on this list (or browsing its archives) is interested in any of this, feel free to let me know; that will motivate me to got on with it. ;) I hope that this stuff falls within the scope of this list; please let me know if it doesn't. FWIW, I would also like to get into McCLIM (and Climacs), rather than, say, porting SWT. I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Robert Strandh earlier in the year, and I'm convinced it's the way to go. Or was, until I read Duncan Rose's post, and now I'm very keen to learn more about his "fourth generation" CLIM. We've got Chris Double and Bruce Hoult in this town; I could try and persuade them to bring their combined Lisp & Dylan experience to bear. ;) Cheers, John :^P [1] http://wiki.alu.org/John_Pallister's_road_to_Lisp [2] http://lemonodor.com/archives/001305.html -- John Pallister [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
