Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:51:44 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer), freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interest in large collection of Lisp/Scheme implementations? Message-ID: <199611200751.IAA02139@knight.cons.org> In-Reply-To: <199611191045.LAA25078@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <199611190957.KAA29674@knight.cons.org> <199611191045.LAA25078@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Christoph Kukulies writes: > > - 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"? > You're thinking of the rise and fall Symbolics, right? ;-) Well, I'm afraid we have to wait until Emacs is based on Guile instead of elisp. The reel feeling needs an Editor and an environment hosted in the same live world. Stallman pushes this step, so there is hope. But, in fact, right now I sit in front of a photocopy of one of these fancy keyboards with 'Windows 95' keys, scratching the ugly MS logos from it and labeling keys 'meta', 'super', 'hyper', 'symbol', 'select', painting circles and quares and do a xmodmop to make the useless caps lock above the left shift a backwards delete key :-) [followups on this paragraph are better directed to -chat] [...] > I would like to see such a collection. When you cover 20 implementations > I'm sure my favourite LISP, namely XLISP (XSCHEME) will be included. I planned to do so for Common Lisp and Scheme. In fact, I don't eally like xlisp because it caused it lot of code to be written that is not useable on other implementations and xlisp is to a good part responsible for the myth that Lisp has to be slow. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (batched, preferred for large mails) Tel.: (daytime) +4940 41478712 (sometimes hacker's daytime :-) Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 Paper: (private) Waldstrasse 200, 22846 Norderstedt, Germany
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