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From: sandell@ferret.ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.windows.x
Subject: LISP/X-Windows interfaces (query)
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Date: 4 Dec 89 23:00:47 GMT
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I would like to hear from anybody who is involved (or has been involved)
in using X-Windows in a LISP environment.  The obvious problem is that
there is a wealth of information on using X in a 'C' programming
environment, but very little with regard to LISP.  We have clx running
on Sun SPARCs in our shop, but this appears to be a preliminary, 
experimental package under development.  

I am especially interested in the following questions, but I would
appreciate any other wisdom you may have to offer.

1. Our version of clx (which came bundled with the X library we got
for the SPARCs) is a 1988 copy.  Have any further releases come
out?  Are they available via FTP?

2. How feasible is it to write low-level routines for performing
X functions in C and have that compiled code called from LISP?
The advantage there is to use the power of all the example code
currently available that is written in C.

3. Does anyone use ALLEGRO COMMON WINDOWS, which uses X windows and
clx?  If so, is this a productive environment.

Thanks in advance,
Greg Sandell

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* Greg Sandell, Institute for Learning Sciences, Evanston, IL *
* sandell@ferret.ils.nwu.edu                                  *
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