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From: alex@umbc3.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: A Decent Environment. Where is it? (some flame, some advice)
Message-ID: <568@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 04:22:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 12 04:22:33 1987
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<mucho stuff made gone...>

There has been much heated discussion about what is wrong with various systems,
but mostly vaguaritys & generalizations...SO:

    I am running KCL on an AT&T 3b1, I also have GNU Emacs. As an extension to
a school project, I would like to design a working environment for lisp stuff.
I plan to write all the code (unless someone else is interested :-)) and have
an abundance of tools, graphics, windows, mouse, menus, editors, lisp etc.

	So my question: What makes a good lisp environment? do i need/want
full unix shell stuff inside of lisp? I can link all of the syscalls into
lisp & dynamicly load a shell, but the command syntax seems a bit odd. also,
while i can get lisp to fork, forking 2meg of lisp for ls is a bit extranious.
I am considering satalite processes, like a shell & editor, & communicatiion
through message packes or pipes, but...

	SO, In 25 words or less, What do you want?? whate shal i go? what shal
i do? all suggestions are welcome! either post or email & i will summerize.

						:alex.

alex@umbc3.umd.edu



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