Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:22:01 -0500 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@plexuscom.com> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, rpw3@sgi.com Subject: Re: Interest in large collection of Lisp/Scheme implementations? Message-ID: <199611191422.JAA03882@chai.plexuscom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:57:32 %2B0100." <199611190957.KAA29674@knight.cons.org>
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> - Is there some interest to have such a wide collection of
> Lisp-related packages on FreeBSD or do you think is a rather
> pointless or would you fear FreeBSD could be seen as some kind of
> "new Lisp machine"?
Can't speak for others but I'd love to see as wide a collection
of scheme/lisp packages as possible.
> I'm talking about more than just compiling these packages. I plan to
> make Common Lisp/Scheme libraries availiable for as many
> implementations as possible.
I hope the `ported' environment is not too different from what
one gets from `just compiling' these packages.
> I think we could make FreeBSD a nice platform for fans of dynamic
> languages.
It already is! In the past I have run MzScheme, scm, scsh, STk,
elk, siod, psi, gambit, vscm, guile and a few more (whose names I
don't recall at the moment) on NetBSD as well as FreeBSD.
> I also plan
> to see how one can use FreeBSD's VM system to speed up some
> implementations and promote the results.
[Since you asked for feedback] IMHO, what is would be more useful is
a collection of separate packages useful for doing mundane things
(without having to use a full Lisp/Scheme environment ala
emacs/elisp and where one doesn't need to allocate 8Mbytes or more
of VM just to print hello world or scan through mail messages or
edit a file or count words in a file). Packages for things like:
syscall interface
network programming
text processing: editing, searching, transforming etc.
shell programming
mail processing
HTML processing
and also more complex things like:
X windows interface
a generic C/C++ interface to use any C/C++ library
support for dynamic loading/unloading of libraries
-- bakul
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