[info-mcl] Pathname and Unicode in MCL 5.1

[Toomas Altosaar]

>As far as reuiniting OpenMCL and MCL, I know that is not a
>possibility. I would really love to have Fred on OpenMCL and some
>reasonable path for porting gui code from MCL. If we all chip in
>$1,000 maybe we could hire someone to do this (hahaha...).

I think Sean has hit upon an important issue here: whether a working 
version of MCL costs 750 USD or 1750 USD (or even a bit more) makes 
little or no difference compared to the costs of spending 
months/years porting code to another Lisp, another OS, or even 
abandoning Lisp altogether and moving on to another language.

There is obviously an acute demand for MCL to continue, so why are 
there no offerings for the development and sale of an IDE from 
Digitool or Clozure or someone else?

Or is it that what Digitool developed, i.e. Fred, so unique and 
powerful, that no one else can replicate it? So far it seems so.