Peter Seibel wrote: >On Dec 16, 2005, at 6:37 AM, C Y wrote: > >>Anyway, does the idea of a grass roots effort to contact the copyright >>holders of the dpANS content sound like a worthwhile project? It >>would >>need to be coordinated and organized, of course, and people would have >>to be very polite and patient when contacting people. Any thoughts on >>how to organize something like that? >> >> >I think in the *very* long run the idea of a "Community Lisp" is an >interesting one (and a great name). But I also think it needs to be >approached very carefully. For better or worse, the current standard >is the locus of a lot of strong feelings--on the one hand it is one >of the great strengths of Common Lisp and it was also produced at >great cost, both financial and emotional. So any proposal to muck >with it in any way is--fairly or not--going to stir up a lot of >strong emotions. > > I guess I don't really think the standard is the issue anyway, at least not for me. The primary issues for me aren't language issues but implementation issues, topped by threading, cross-implementation library installation, and environment setup.
Being a developer and not a system administrator, I feel pretty strongly that I shouldn't have to fight a battle every time I want to set up a Lisp web application development environment, worry about whether or not threads are supported, figure out how to install all the libraries I need every time, or rediscover how to integrate my platform's windowing system into the standalone application I'm developing. Dave _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
