On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 10:17 -0600, Andy Cristina wrote: > I haven't tended any bonzai trees in my lifetime, but I do know oaks > take quite a while to grow.
Better to start sooner rather than later then. > I don't think all of us unifying behind a > particular implementation will do anything but cause a good portion of > the gardeners to quit and make their own groups around the > implementations they use. Possible. And that might turn out to be alright, because it might result in a winner. Or it could turn out that there's a lot of pent up demand for this sort of thing and that it turns out to be a net win (http://lemonodor.com/archives/001302.html ). > I think we should all just do the things that we can reasonably do > now, and over time it is possible we will converge on one > implementation (and it damn well better be clisp). For now, its > better to just find a project you can do, and then do it. I agree, but when you're doing that project, unless you've got lots of time and Lisps on your hands, you're going to make implementation- specific choices. Continuing to do this without settling on a single implementation will greatly limit both the ease of new programmers' initiation and the availability of libraries for the Lisp in question, and we will have pulled out a lot of good seeds with the weeds. Steve _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
