Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And, BTW, most Lisp environments have the same "write to disk" > problem. The differences is that most of them are using Emacs and > can write the interactive buffer. The same thing can be done for > ipython, IIRC.
But then there's also the image idea in Lisp, lacking in most other languages. What one might save from an interactive session could be the code, as in the text, but it could and should also be the image, or the accreted environment built up out of the evaluation of code, ready to be restarted later -- and perhaps even delivered for end-user consumption. The whole idea of a "program" in Lisp doesn't really make sense, unless one wanders into implementation-specific "boot functions", but even then those are just singled-out entry points into the big ball of mud. -- Steven E. Harris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
