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Re: [RP] ratpoison in LISP
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Ryan Yeske |
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Re: [RP] ratpoison in LISP |
Date: |
23 Jun 2001 10:06:52 -0700 |
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Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> writes:
> I've been going through SICP, Paul Grahams beginners book, and my
> Little Schemer. Also looked at CLX and have cmucl installed.
Right on.
> The time is here; why wait? CLX is a LISP analog of Xlib. A straight
> port of ratpoison to LISP should be fairly easy, then it could only
> get better from that point on. Yes, the resulting binary would
> probably be "big", but the benefits of using lisp make that
> irrelevant. We could just ship source in a form like this:
I don't think a straight port is the best way to go. I think just
writing a minimal set of event handlers and window mapping functions
in lisp and providing hooks to each will be enough.
> #!/usr/bin/lisp -f - <our code here>
>
> or something like that.
>
> I suspect since CLX is so little used (but it IS used) we might find
> some bugs in it etc.
>
> According to the O'Reilly book, when X was released it originally
> supported both C and LISP (xlib and clx), and I believe it still does
> today.
Is clx is maintained by the X Consortium?
Ryan
Re: [RP] ratpoison in LISP,
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