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From: sbc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Steve B Cousins)
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Subject: Re: Developing over CLX
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.155852.20583@wucs1.wustl.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 89 15:58:52 GMT
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In article <31035@news.Think.COM> barmar@kulla (Barry Margolin) writes:
>In article <1989Oct24.183645.9930@wucs1.wustl.edu> sbc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Steve B Cousins) writes:
>>Is it possible/reasonable/a good idea to develop CL appliations over
>>CLX?  In particular, if I had a Sun running Franz lisp with CLX, and
>
>I don't understand.  How would you deliver those applications without
>developing them?
	...
>
>barmar@think.com
>{uunet,harvard}!think!barmar

I guess my question was a little unclear, although the rest of the response
was helpful to me anyway... When I asked about developing CL applications
_over_ CLX, I meant to mean "over" as in "over the network".  In other
words, if I have a Sun in one room, and I'm sitting at an X server in another
room, am I sitting at a reasonable development environment, or should I
develop my lisp code at the Sun console and write applications that could
only be USED at the X server.

I read your reply as saying that I probably don't want to use CLX alone to
do anything with.  I was hoping to be able to sit at my Mac and run Mac X
connected across the net to a Sun running Franz's product as an alternative
to using Allegro on the Mac when I needed more performance.  I can do that
with Telnet now, but I was hoping for a better development environment.
Is it safe to say that such things are still pretty premature?

Steve Cousins
sbc@wucs1.wustl.edu