Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!bearcat.rutgers.edu!lou From: lou@bearcat.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Developing over CLX Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 89 18:12:43 GMT References: <1989Oct24.183645.9930@wucs1.wustl.edu> <31035@news.Think.COM> <1989Oct25.155852.20583@wucs1.wustl.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 27 To: sbc@wucs1.UUCP In article <1989Oct25.155852.20583@wucs1.wustl.edu> sbc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Steve B Cousins) writes: > 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. If by "Franz" you mean Allegro Common Lisp from Franz Inc (as opposed to Franz Lisp, the language), then yes, it is just as reasonable to sit at your MAC as at the Sun console. All the window-based debugging tools that I have seen for Allegro Common Lisp (the Sun version) work over X. These tools are reasonable, although not up to the level one would see on a Lisp Machine. By the way, I would second the recommendation of a previous poster to run Lisp (of any kind) under Emacs. In particular, Franz Inc. has a very nice package for GNU emacs that provides a nice environment for running lisp under emacs. You can even run emacs on one machine and lisp on another, although you lose certain facilities by doing so. -- Lou Steinberg uucp: {pretty much any major site}!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!lou arpa: lou@cs.rutgers.edu