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. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
