On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:19, Paolo Amoroso wrote: > I hope that my comments will stimulate the realization that the future > of Lisp is in the hands of its users. There are probably no > fundamental technical reasons why Lisp is not more widespread: the > fragmentation of implementations, the lack of cross-platform GUI > toolkits, the difficulty of generating standalone executables, the > parentheses, the lack of standardized APIs, whatever. It's just that > not enough users do something. > > Ideas and discussions are no longer enough. Lisp needs labor, not praise. > > > Paolo
I don't know if this is on-topic, but it's related. I just noticed that neither Corman nor Lispworks (I haven't checked Allegro) on Windows come with ASDF.lisp. I'm sure it can't help Lisp propagation if none of the commercial distributions come with what is effectively a portable, freely redistributable library (only 40kb too) that is crucial to the majority of these CLD efforts. I'm not saying they won't put it in their distribution, just that they haven't, and there's no reason that I can see, for it. Maybe nobody really considered it before. Cheers, Jeremy. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
