root wrote:
> I'm the lead developer on Axiom, a very large computer algebra system
> mostly implemented in common lisp.
> 
> Axiom has two parts which are not common lisp, a documentation browser
> and a graphics subsystem. We need to make both of these portable and
> have pursued multiple paths. 
> 
> One path I've been pursing is CLIM. The hope is that I can reimplement
> these two C programs in CLIM and have them run on every platform. 
> 
> Unfortunately CLIM doesn't seem to be implemented everywhere and
> what has been implemented seems to depend on CLX which is unix
> rather than, say TK, which is cross-platform. Better yet would be
> an interface that would allow us to drive a browser directly
> although I admit that I don't know of a browser API that would
> allow that.
> 
> There is no such thing as a simple job but it has to be possible to
> make CLIM cross-platform. Since I couldn't find a running example I
> set out to make-it-so.

I was looking at the McCLIM CVS sources the other day; it seems that 
someone is developing an OpenGL backend for it: this would potentially 
work on any platform with a Common Lisp and and an OS that supports OpenGL.

John Connors.
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