Why [not] X?

[Harvey J. Stein]

Kelly Murray writes:
 > 
 > [as he pokes his head up from actually working on SilkOS...]
 > 
 > > I'll leave it at this: if you want to kick ass with a Lisp graphics
 > > system, don't stub your toe on X. Aim a little higher.
 > 
 > I'll say again what I've suggested:  A web browser is the GUI.
 > If you want it to kick-ass, then put a Lisp in the web browser,
 > and send LISP code to the browser.  
 > 
 > Is someone going to volunteer to write a web browser in Lisp?

I have one written in scheme which runs under STk.  It was basically
usable, but needed a little redesign which would have required C
hacking in STk, so I started rewriting it in scm so as to be ready
when guile was sufficiently usable for it...

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Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il