[info-mcl] RMCL 5.2.1 Official

[Glen Foy]

On Nov 14, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Terje Norderhaug wrote:

> I would like to see if I can use it with the
> MCLIDE project <http://mclide.in-progress.com/>,

This is a visionary project.

It lets us use Fred and MCL's  other excellent tools with a variety of  
Lisps and possibly Schemes.  In my view Fred has never been equaled as  
a Lisp editor, and now, thanks to Terje, we can keep using it.  MCL's  
IDE is a paradigm.  And as we develop a new version for CCL it is  
important to remember what has been done right in the past.  Simple,  
powerful, tightly integrated tools.  Greater than the sum of its parts.

Rosette may be dropped with the next major release of OSX, but I  
intend to have a Leopard partition on my hard drive for many years to  
come.  MCLIDE and RMCL will be put to good use.

I hope we can encourage Terje to take this to the next level -- a  
generic Lisp IDE written in CCL -- possibly a generic Lisp IDE written  
in CCL using a cross-platform toolkit.  It would be a project that  
would catch the imagination of the entire Lisp community.  Slime tries  
to do this, but despite its numerous virtues, Slime just does not cut  
it with young programmers.  A project like MCLIDE would.  It would  
have a positive, possibly profound, impact on the entire language.

With modern-mcl.lisp Terje single-handedly transformed a congenitally  
ugly MCL into a good looking Aqua application.  Now he has given us  
MCLIDE.

Many thanks, Terje

PS.

I just debugged some code running in the main Cocoa thread.  With  
MCLIDE both the Backtrace dialog and the Inspector are available!!
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