OK, here's the deal. I am beginning development of some software to
implement what has been christened "community". Graphical chat (at its
worst).
I have done some proof-of-concept Java work. As superior as Java may be
to C++, it falls so far short of Lisp that I am looking for an excuse to
blow off the advantages of Java, such as platform independence and small
applets.
Anybody want to help?
As I see it, if I use Lisp I have to do MCL, Allegro and (maybe) Unix
versions. Not the end of the world.
Also, users will have to download a big standalone client app instead of
a smaller applet. And while the applet (I think) will be DL'ed
automatically by a browser, users will have to take a deliberate step to
DL and I guess install the client.
Is my analysis correct? Does the HTML4.0 <object> tag help in anyway?
One thought I have is to develop in Lisp (using only idioms portable to
Java) so at least the development slog is done in Lisp.
The other thought I have is that when my venture goes belly up it might
be good to have Java on the resume. :(
Thx for any insights on Lisp and the Web.
-- Ken
Ken Tilton wrote in message <·················@liii.com>...
>OK, here's the deal. I am beginning development of some software to
>implement what has been christened "community". Graphical chat (at its
>worst).
>
>I have done some proof-of-concept Java work. As superior as Java may be
>to C++, it falls so far short of Lisp that I am looking for an excuse to
>blow off the advantages of Java, such as platform independence and small
>applets.
>...
I've been doing the same thing for about the last year and a half. While my
thinking may be a bit different than yours, I did arrive at a similar
decision which is to use LISP (Scheme actually) and Java. Turns out a very
convenient way to do that is with Kawa which is a Scheme implementation that
compiles to Java bytes codes.
Get it at <http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner/kawa.html>.
jim
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