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

[Toomas Altosaar]

Marco,

You present a good perspective since why should 
we compromise good technology that is already 
there?!

This would benefit Lisp dramatically.

Best regards,

Toomas

>Well, I understand...  but let me turn the thing on its head then.  
>What I 'd like is a very good Cocoa thing that ran on Lispworks, 
>CMUCL/SBCL and Allegro.  Why not strive for that?
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>Cheers
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>Marco
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>On Oct 10, 2007, at 24:04 , Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
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>>  On Oct 9, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
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>>>  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.
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>>  I'd have to disagree here for a couple of reasons.
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>>  First, CAPI was ported to Mac OS X last and it shows - it is very un-
>>  mac-like in a number of ways.
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>>  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.
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>>  regards,
>>
>>  Ralph
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>>  Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
>>  raffaelcavallaro at mac.com
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