Random questions from a slightly less newbie lisper..

From: JohnFredCee (johnc_at_yagc.ndo.co.uk)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: 29 Mar 2005 08:58:39 -0800

1> Is it just me or does working with FFI's rather invalidate some of
the better points of working with lisp (ie suddenly you are working in
a fragile environment, with segfaults a go-go and having to continually
restart your repl? - until the lib stabilises, though?)

2> Is there going to be a new standard? I want the mess with pathnames
fixed, I'd also like inline assembler, a standard FFI, and threads.
Finalisation would be nice. Plus the ability to refer to self in an
:initform or :initarg. The ablilty to align vectors and structs in
memory would be nice, too.

3> Can I still write my own VOPs as a micro-optimisation for CMUCL and
SBCL? (x86)..

4> How many years does it take to get familiar with this langugage and
not feel like a newbie?

-
John Connors
http://badbyteblues.blogspot.com

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