[cl-carbon-devel] Re: Suggestion for the web page

[Chris Curtis]

I sketched out a short "why Carbon" fragment as a starting point.  
Nothing too fancy, just a short justification of why it's not insane.  
Edit at will. :-)

<h2>Why Carbon?</h2>

<p>
   Because diamonds shouldn't have marshmallows in them.
   <a href="http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/">Cocoa</a> is an
   immensely powerful tool, but for some classes of problems it's a
   rather awkward fit. Often
   <a href="http://developer.apple.com/carbon/">Carbon's</a> event model
   and API are simply cleaner and more natural. CL-Carbon is an attempt
   to make it even more natural for Common Lisp applications.
</p>

<p>
   And because it seems to come up as a question from time to time, no,
   Carbon is not a "dead" API. In fact,
   <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ 
spotlight/">Spotlight</a>
   is written with Carbon, and that's about as new as it gets.
</p>