From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why?

From: Kenneth Tilton
Subject: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why?
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:43:00 +0000
Message-ID: <49d3d1b9$0$5895$607ed4bc@cv.net>

wtf? A Lisper can't do raw Postgres?! At least Postgres is documented. I 
am reminded of the disaster that is cl-opengl: a whole new API!!! OpenGL 
documents do not apply!!!

Questions? Comments?

I just do not see the added value to justify the obfuscation and 
run-time cost.

kt

Re: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why? D Herring
- Re: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why? Kenneth Tilton
Re: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why? Zach Beane
Re: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why? Rob Warnock
- Re: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why? Kenneth Tilton

From: D Herring
Subject: Re: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why?
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:59:32 +0000
Message-ID: <49d3f1d4$0$3337$6e1ede2f@read.cnntp.org>

Kenneth Tilton wrote:
> wtf? A Lisper can't do raw Postgres?! At least Postgres is documented. I 
> am reminded of the disaster that is cl-opengl: a whole new API!!! OpenGL 
> documents do not apply!!!
> 
> Questions? Comments?
> 
> I just do not see the added value to justify the obfuscation and 
> run-time cost.

What do you think of cl-glfw?  Its pretty much a programmatic 1-1 mapping.

- Daniel

From: Kenneth Tilton
Subject: Re: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why?
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:23:59 +0000
Message-ID: <49d41391$0$22547$607ed4bc@cv.net>

D Herring wrote:
> Kenneth Tilton wrote:
>> wtf? A Lisper can't do raw Postgres?! At least Postgres is documented. 
>> I am reminded of the disaster that is cl-opengl: a whole new API!!! 
>> OpenGL documents do not apply!!!
>>
>> Questions? Comments?
>>
>> I just do not see the added value to justify the obfuscation and 
>> run-time cost.
> 
> What do you think of cl-glfw?  Its pretty much a programmatic 1-1 mapping.
> 

I still use my own bindings for opengl, but thx for the recommendation.

kt

From: Zach Beane
Subject: Re: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why?
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:02:55 +0000
Message-ID: <m3k564nfj4.fsf@unnamed.xach.com>

Kenneth Tilton <·········@gmail.com> writes:

> wtf? A Lisper can't do raw Postgres?! 

QUERY can get pretty raw.

Zach

From: Rob Warnock
Subject: Re: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why?
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:36:01 +0000
Message-ID: <tp-dnfj5vaiMCEnUnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>

Kenneth Tilton  <·········@gmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| wtf? A Lisper can't do raw Postgres?!
+---------------

I still like (and use) Eric Marsden's "PG", the first item at:

    http://emarsden.chez.com/downloads/


-Rob

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From: Kenneth Tilton
Subject: Re: From the Dept of NIH: Pomo? Why?
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:00:59 +0000
Message-ID: <49d4a8dd$0$27777$607ed4bc@cv.net>

Rob Warnock wrote:
> Kenneth Tilton  <·········@gmail.com> wrote:
> +---------------
> | wtf? A Lisper can't do raw Postgres?!
> +---------------
> 
> I still like (and use) Eric Marsden's "PG", the first item at:
> 
>     http://emarsden.chez.com/downloads/
> 
> 

I just discovered s-sql evaluates the table name in drop table but not 
create table. oh my....

kt