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From: tjhorton@vis.toronto.edu ("Timothy J. Horton")
Subject: Re: Common Lisp bindings for Motif
Message-ID: <91Feb1.193834est.8671@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <91.031.09:51:11@ira.uka.de>
Date: 2 Feb 91 00:38:55 GMT
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wolpers@.ira.uka.de (Andreas Wolpers) writes:
>After bothering several individuals (without much success) it seems that this
>is the last chance to prevent us from a lot of boring work.
>
>Does anybody have Common Lisp bindings for Motif,
>either finished or under development?

The answer is "clx" -- common lisp x bindings -- which have been around
for a long time (I used them over a year ago).  From the man page for
Allegro common lisp:


NAME
     cl - Allegro Common Lisp
SYNOPSIS
     cl [ options ... ]
DESCRIPTION
     Allegro CL is a complete implementation of Common  Lisp,  as
     specified in Common Lisp: the Language . The Allegro CL sys-
     tem consists of an interpreter, an optimizing compiler,  and
     a  set  of functions.

Associated Programs

...
     cw   is a version of lisp containing Allegro Common Windows,
          a  lisp-based,  high  level  window system, under the X
          Window System using CLX.
     clx  is a low-level interface to the X Window system  (basi-
          cally   a   lisp   version  of  Xlib).   Source  is  in
          /cs/src/cl/clx.  composer contains CLX.
     composer
          is a version of lisp  containing  Allegro  Composer,  a
          window-based program development environment.  Composer
          has a "windowized" inspector, debugger, profiler, and a
          status display of lisp processes.  Composer is built on
          Common Windows.
     clue is a portable system for user interface programming  in
          Common Lisp.  CLUE, which is based on the X Window Sys-
          tem and the Common Lisp Object System  (CLOS),  extends
          the CLX interface to provide an architectural model for
          building interactive Lisp  applications.   Modelled  on
          the  Xtk  toolkit library, CLUE could be described as a
          translation of the Xt "intrinsics" into the  domain  of
          Common  Lisp and CLOS.  Source and documentation are in
          /cs/src/cl/clue.
...

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