Re: [tlug] ruby and python in Japan

[Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@??>]

On 2 mars 07, at 17:32, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > > Oh, I don't know about that. For all the issues it has, it does have
> > > some very good points, too, from what I understand, such as the very
> > > large set of standard libraries. I think it actually could have been
> > > what Java is, had there been a freely available implemenation.
> >
> > There are plenty of free (as in GNU-free) implementations of common
> > lisp.
>
> Curt's point is that in Java's takeoff period 1994-1998 or so, there
> were not.

Of course. Thank you for pointing that out.

> However, I think his case is pretty weak, in that causality went the
> other way around.  There have been advocates of porting GNU Emacs to
> Common Lisp since CLTL1 (why does that abbreviation always remind me
> of HP Lovecraft?), yet rms has steadfastly resisted doing so.  Ditto
> XEmacs, but in both cases I think the big problem is the attraction of
> Scheme for the core elisp implementers, even though Emacs Lisp is a
> lot closer to CL than to Scheme.

There is currently work on writing an emacs clone in Common Lisp. The  
project name is Climacs:
http://common-lisp.net/project/climacs/

JC