>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Campbell <campbell(a)cyberpass.net> writes:
Rick> If you have a PC running Linux or FreeBSD, a Sun, or an HP,
Rick> you can get CMUCL which has a real compiler and avoids a lot
Rick> of the problems that any system trying to piggy back on top
Rick> of C will have.
Yes, I have CMU-CL installed; there's a Debian GNU/Linux package of
it now, and it's the one with the new gengc and mt. It is very fast.
Hemlock works, but is very blah by comparison to XEmacs.
I wonder how hard it would be to make Hemlock do everything that
XEmacs does? :-) A *lot* of work by many people, no doubt.
I would like to try and get Garnet to compile sometime... but not
until after I've completed some other studies, so I'll be able to fix
it if it's broken. The gesture support it's got sounds neat; kind of
like what `strokes-mode' does in XEmacs.
Rick> I've heard some good things about guile, but it's definitely
Rick> more in the Scheme camp than the Common Lisp camp and I
Rick> believe that it suffers from RMSism (as compared to scheme)
Rick> in the same sorts of ways that FSF's version of GNU Emacs
Rick> does (as compared to XEmacs).
I'm working on some guile1.3 CVS snapshot Debian packages right now.
I've begun to learn how libguile operates. I think it will help me
understand XEmacs' internals; `guile' is certainly much simpler and
probably easier to understand.
You can get it via anon CVS now; check out their CVSROOT/modules file
to see what's there. The guile hobbit compiler almost works now. It
will compile simple functions and itself to C. I was also able to
get the guile-unexec to work, and have packaged it.
What is `RMSism'?
I will also try and study Scheme48. I think it may be a better
engineered product than `guile'... but cannot judge without a lot
more study. It's implemented very differently; it looks like the
bulk of the code is written in scheme, and compiled to C via the
prescheme. I've only spent a total of about 2 hours looking at it,
finding that I need to read a few books and theory papers first.
Right now I'm part way through a book on garbage collection, and
another book on threads...
I should kill a few of my threads and concentrate my efforts and time
on one project at a time for a while, I think. :-)
