Re: Are we close to a Lisp boom ?

Edi Weitz <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Tue, 06 May 2008 22:47:20 -0400, George Neuner <gneuner2/@/comcast.net> wrote:

That's different for GUI programs on OS X or KDE or Gnome?

It potentially could be if the program were written for raw X
instead of using a widget framework or the native window manager.

Sounds like fun. And I'm sure the users will like it, especially the
Mac users...

That said, some MacOS (not MacOSX) applications have been written like
this, re-implementing widgets looking exactly like those of the Mac
Toolbox, to be nice to Mac users. (IIRC, because it was written in
some language where it was easier to do that than to add a FFI to the
Toolbox). Of course, it only lasted until Apple Fashion Director
changed the look-of-the-day of their widgets.

--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
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