[info-mcl] digitool (MCL) / clozure (OpenMCL)

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On Oct 9, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Marco Antoniotti wrote:

> CAPI has a decent cross-platform interface and it has worked well for
> Lispworks developers; with minor tweaks, most applications work on
> Linux, Mac OS and Windows.  IMHO what the CL world needs not is yet
> another single platform thing.

I'd have to disagree here for a couple of reasons.

First, CAPI was ported to Mac OS X last and it shows - it is very un- 
mac-like in a number of ways.

Second, the various GUI and other libraries that are available to  
Cocoa applications on Mac OS X are extraordinary in both their breadth  
and depth. To do a cross-platform lisp is to essentially ignore these,  
since most of these libraries are Mac OS X only (Core Image, AppKit,  
WebKit, Sync Services, etc.). It seems to me that a single platform  
(i.e., Mac OS X only) Common Lisp is precisely what's needed to take  
full advantage of these libraries.

regards,

Ralph

Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
raffaelcavallaro at mac.com