About GUI and lisps...

Hi,

after posting a couple of stupidities to the group today I thought I
should compensate with something useful :-)

Probably many of you have already seen this on Planet Lisp, but Michael
Goffioul has created a nice, little Windows pplication called "LISP
shell" that is an interactive lisp environment using ECL for the
language and .NET/RDNZL for the GUI.

You can see the news item here:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=609573
It contains pointers to the package and a screenshot.

I have already asked Edi about this, but perhaps another possibility
for GUI would be using .NET not only on Windows, but also on other unix
platforms via Mono (*). One would have to think on a way to implement
the same functionality as its RDNZL library using this free
implementation, but it does not sound like a crazy idea and _all_ lisps
out there would benefit from that. Has anybody thought about it before?

Cheers,

Juanjo

(*) Note that Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page) has become a
standard component of GNOME 2.16 and is going to be thus part of many
linux distributions out there.

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