[cells-devel] A shocking proposal

Heow Eide-Goodman lists at alphageeksinc.com
Mon Nov 10 16:18:41 UTC 2003


I have a feeling Kenny is talking about things like screen-shots and
stuff.  Cells is pretty portable, it's Cello that has the GUI bits.

...oh wait, are we talking about a Cells or Cello Tutorial?  ...Kenny?

- Heow


On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:51, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:36:57AM -0500, Kenny Tilton wrote:
> 
> > What if I base the Cells tutorials on the free LW downloads? If I can 
> > believe what I hear, it is portable across Mac OS X, Linux, and some 
> > other system called Window or something. :)
> 
> Maybe, but I'm not sure what the benefit would be.
> 
> > That will be a lot more fun than text-based tutorials like 
> > 01-cell-basics.lisp. 
> 
> By this I guess that you mean to do GUI-stuff as part of the tutorial,
> possibily CAPI? 
> 
> IF so, I really think that that's a bad idea: I'd prefer to tackle one
> new thing at a time. If you had something different in mind, then
> dunno -- but the same applies: non-standard stuff besides the main
> subject of in a tutorial is a Bad Thing.
> 
> What I'd really like would be CLHS style docs for DEFMODEL, CV, C?,
> and friends...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  -- Nikodemus
> 
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