[armedbear-devel] 0.18 and beyond

[Matthew D. Swank]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:47:10 +0200
Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/11/6  <logicmoo at gmail.com>:
> > Here is the list of some improvements I see for ABCL in the future.
> > * Decompile many of the library files such as format.lisp,
> > pprint.lisp etc... convert to .java files
> 
> I don't believe we want to convert lisp code to  java code in the
> future. The ongoing desire
> is to have less java and more lisp.
> 

Yes.  Certainly less Java would make it easier to eventually
target .NET (w/o using ikvm): another improvement in the list.

Staying in lisp for important library functions simply means getting
better at compiling to the JVM.

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