On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 03:58 -0800, Mohamed Samy wrote:
> On Nov 17, 4:28 pm, Slobodan Blazeski <·················@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My only complaints of ABLE were lack of File Menu, and asdf directory
> > with some popular libraries preinstalled. Phil has both planned for
> > the next release of ABLE. If that happens I don't see any obstacles
> > for new users under windows to start lisping if they don't like to pay
> > for commercial offerings and hate heap limits. I don't know how good
> > is sbcl threading under windows (it might be great already I don't
> > know) for running hunchentoot, which is very popular dependencies, but
> > I'm sure that sbcl folks will improve it if there are enough sbcl
> > users under windows.
> > So thanks to Phil and folks from sbcl and clozure cl, free lisp ide
> > under windows will be very soon - case closed.
> >
> > bobi
>
> I took a look at ABLE, and while it does look promising I think it's
> somewhat limited in scope. For example it doesn't seem to intend to
> provide, say, a GUI designer or a debugger. ABLE would be fine for a
> new Lisper's first steps, but when he moves on to more interesting/
> more complex types of applications he still has to hunt down for
> libraries and tools, without an adequate one-stop solution for his or
> her requirements.
> No offense, but I believe the case is far from closed :(
>
> --Mohamed
would you like some fries with that, sir?