Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com> writes:
> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:27:50 +0200
> From: Norman Werner <·············@student.uni-magdeburg.de>
> To: Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
> Subject: Re: general Interface CL <-> interactive Programm ?
>
> Aargh,
> the last letter should have gone to the newsgroup
>
> Norman
>
> In case you want to re-post it, I've included your text below.
>
> Btw, fyi, webster.com says:
>
> Main Entry: dreck
> Variant(s): also drek /'drek/
> Function: noun
> Etymology: Yiddish drek & German Dreck, from Middle High German drec;
> akin to Old English threax rubbish
> Date: 1922
> : TRASH, RUBBISH
>
> So I hope it means the same for us as for you. :) Sounds like it
> does, but one never knows.
It does
> From: Norman Werner <·············@student.uni-magdeburg.de>
> Subject: Re: general Interface CL <-> interactive Programm ?
> To: Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:25:26 +0200
>
> Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Since these things you are connecting to are platform-dependent,
>> that's a kind of odd request.
>>
>> On the Lisp Machine, for example, which is lisp down to the hardware,
>> what would it mean to connect to gnuplot? Do you suppose that if gnuplot
>> existed there, it would be invoked by shell command, there being no shell?
>> It would be a Lisp function with keyword arguments.
>>
>> And even among PC and Mac, the variety of shells (sh/csh/bash vs DOS vs
>> whatever Apple has) is broad.
>>
>> There are legacy operating systems like VAX VMS, ITS DDT, MIT Multics,
>> and there could be (if we're lucky) future operating systems that are
>> different yet again than the dreck that passes for operating systems
>> these days.
>
> You are saying "dreck" ? ... That's funny - At least for me being
> german.
>> I would _hope_ that the first requirement of such a system
>> is that if you did a callout to another process, you didn't do it by
>> writing commands onto a stream that had to be parsed before they could
>> be executed, but instead you passed real objects to real functions.
>>
>> Your problem is ill-defined.
>>
>> If you relax the platform-independence part, you have half a hope
>> of winning.
>
> Ok - with platform-independent meaning "runs on toasters and
> space-shuttles" the question is odd. But with platform-independent
> meaning "runs on all major lisp-implementations" ... Oops the question
> is odd too - since a package with support for different lisps will do.
>
>
> Norman
> ----------
>
Norman
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