Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:11218 comp.windows.news:1427 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Lisp X Server (was Re: GWM and Other things) Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 89 16:24:39 GMT Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Bob Sutterfield Followup-To: comp.windows.x Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 20 In-reply-to: mike@ists.ists.ca's message of 28 Jun 89 01:47:36 GMT In article <118@ists.ists.ca> mike@ists.ists.ca (Mike Clarkson) writes Given the fact that NeWS source is cheap for universities (~1000$), it strikes me that it would not be a too difficult problem to make a Lisp front end to a PostScript interpreter. X11/NeWS is already internally structured as two language interpreters (X11 and PostScript) operating on the same event queue, window forest, etc. Rather than make a language front-end to the PostScript interpreter, why not install another language interpreter at the same level as the two that are already there? It would certainly be more difficult than just a front-end, but the thoroughly-integrated result would be far beyond a front-end's capabilities. I've heard of several front-end projects, and of course there already exist window systems based on other languages (Interlisp, Smalltalk), but perhaps Sun has a more general and accessible extension mechanism at the interpreter level. It would certainly make a good thesis project!