RE: [Axiom-developer] CCL maintenance

[Bill Page]

On May 30, 2007 1:11 PM Tim Daly wrote:
> ...
> While CCL gave portability it isn't a full common lisp. Indeed
> GCL is no longer a "full" common lisp. The direction is clearly
> ANSI in the long term. So I'd have to conclude that CCL is
> unlikely to be of importance in the future of Axiom.
> 

As Gaby has pointed out, one could take an entirely different
point of view. There is no reason to so strongly associated
Axiom with Lisp. In fact Axiom only uses a small part of the
Lisp runtime environment. So it might be possible to take CCL
as the basis for an Axiom-specific runtime optimized especially
to efficiently support Axiom. From this point of view ANSI
compatibility is completely irrelevant.

Regards,
Bill Page.