Re: Decreasing the "standard deviation" of lisp


Eli Gottlieb <eligottlieb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

OK, so go work on SBCL. AFAIK, it's the only Common Lisp system
actually written in Common Lisp and able to self-compile.

And how do you know this? Think Allegro, LispWorks, ...


Plenty of things are available as vendor-specific extensions, and the
vendor-specific part is why people don't use them.

Which reduces their behavior here to that of an idiot.


People like coding programs that will compile in separate
compilers: that's why they delay upgrading their GCC when there's a
bug in the new version.

This "analogy" would imply that they would tend not to _upgrade_ their
implementation, not that they wouldn't pick any at all.


Let me make a suggestion: Less yackity yack about choosing language
constructs and libraries to standardize. A single, standard FFI that

Isn't this old ground? Doesn't CFFI address this (even if it is not
yet perfect)???


/Jon

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