gui

[BRIAN SPILSBURY]

je> see http://www.cs.unm.edu/pad++/begin.html
je> 
je> This is a *very* interesting user interface written in Scheme. I don't
je> know if there are any legal restrictions that would keep LispOS
je> from adopting it, but it would really make the system stand out
je> from all those Windows and X things.

something else which looks like it might contain this nicely is
the Magic Lenses research at xerox parc. 

http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/MagicLenses/

this can be looked at as a system of compositional transformational
filters, and gives a nice Open Implementations style to most of the
gui. There are as usual performance issues, but in a primitive
sketch I've put together using immutability to allow caching in thr
actual renderer makes it reasonable fast over CLX.

Brian