--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a result of this experience it became clear to me that > you need a deep change of philosophy about documentation and > coding in general. Much more of the human aspects of the > problem need to be captured and preserved if code is to live > and be useful 30 years from now.
This is in fact my primary personal motivation for wanting to liberate the dpANS3 document. I would very much like to use CMUCL and SBCL (as I understand it, these are the two most liberally licensed lisps) and a liberated dpANS3 text to create "Literate Lisp" - a language specification which also includes the code required to define that specification for a computer. (I still like the name Community Lisp, but such minor matters can wait until there IS a literated dpANS3, if it can be done.) That's a rather large bite to chew, granted, given the spec sans code is already a huge work, but I think we can all agree that if any language is worthy of such treatment it is Lisp :-). Also, in some sense Axiom (which is my real primary software interest) depends on Lisp, and so it seems appropriate that a literate Axiom be run on a literate Lisp :-). Cheers, CY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
