Make LispM code FREE (fwd)

[Mike McDonald]

>From lispos-request@math.gatech.edu  Tue Mar 31 10:14:57 1998
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Mason <dmason@scs.Ryerson.CA>
>To: Lisp OS project <lispos@math.gatech.edu>
>Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 9:48 AM
>Subject: Re: Make LispM code FREE (fwd)
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>
>>Rainer Joswig writes:
>>> Hmm, isn't the Lisp Machine source really ancient?
>>> Before 1980? Before Common Lisp? Written for
>>> special hardware? Based on MacLisp (-> Lisp Machine Lisp)?
>>>
>>> What would you do with it?
>>
>>Study it?  Extract snippets of code worth manually translating to
>>Scheme or CL?  Both seem useful to me.
>>
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>
>    Yeah, why create from scratch when there is a load of code out there
>waiting to be pulled in or learned from.....?
>    Anyone have any experience with CLX under Allegro CL?  Got it working
>last night mostly (hell, it seems to work anyway) -- would it be a *bad*
>thing to base some GUI stuff on CLX?
>
>                    Damond
>

  That's what my implementation of CLIM is using for the port portion.


  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com