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

[Ron Garret]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:

>
> Well I definitely come down on the end of give-me-full-access-to-the-
> richness-of-the-Mac and least-common-denominator, cross-platform
> toolkits be damned.

I don't see why it has to be one or the other.  It seems to me that  
if there's already a Lisp-ObjC bridge then the full-access part of  
the equation is solved.  (The fact that it's hard to use is just a  
fact of life at this point.  Cocoa is what it is.)

If someone were to take the Lisp-ObjC interface and build even a  
minimal GUI on top of that that ran on my Macbook Pro that would be  
all I would need to dive back into (Open)MCL development.  Right now  
the fact that I can't access OpenMCL except through a terminal (and  
it doesn't even have Gnu readline) is the only show stopper for me.   
(By minimal GUI I basically mean textedit plus the ability to double- 
click on a close paren to select a sexpr, and/or hit "enter" to  
evaluate it.)

rg