Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aipna!cstr!tim From: tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Is this the end of the lisp wave? Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 91 13:01:58 GMT References: <127724@linus.mitre.org> <5569@turquoise.UUCP> <3954@skye.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@aipna.ed.ac.uk Organization: CSTR, University of Edinburgh Lines: 18 In-reply-to: gateley@rice.edu's message of 17 Jan 91 22:33:02 GMT >>>>> On 17 Jan 91 22:33:02 GMT, gateley@rice.edu (John Gateley) said: > By choosing an appropriate set of primitives, you can get a small core > library with the property that the majority of functions in the CL > library will call only members of the core library (or the core > library plus a small set of others). This gives you the needed > untanglement. And as well as this it is relatively easy to disentangle the language at a coarser level: leave CLOS, the new loop macro and various other big chunks of CL mentioned in ClTL2 out of the core of CL. In fact I would be fairly surprised & disappointed if CL implemtations did *not* do this! --tim Tim Bradshaw. Internet: tim%ed.cstr@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cstr!tim JANET: tim@uk.ac.ed.cstr "...wizzards & inchanters..."