[cl-semantic-devel] Choice of Lisp

[Alan Ruttenberg]

Why would you choose a particular lisp as opposed to aiming for 
platform neutrality? (I use openmcl, abcl, sbcl, cmucl) There are a 
variety of compatibility packages.

It would seem to me that this is a more sensible course. Also you might 
want to consider McClim,  lambda GTK, calling out to java libraries, or 
AJAX technology for the UI all of which are a little more current than 
ltk. Unless you are thinking about some extremely cpu intensive user 
interface, I'd think it would make sense to go with a browser based 
solution.

Regards,
Alan


On Feb 7, 2006, at 11:11 AM, brandon.werner at mac.com wrote:

> All:
>
> There has been some debate among the researchers about which CL to use 
> for this project. Although I have experience with both SBCL and 
> Allegro, it would appear that Allegro is not going to release their 
> 8.0 evaluation version anytime soon and this is the only version that 
> includes the asdf: functionality we will be using to maintain and 
> install builds of cl-semantic.
>
> Yes asdf can be easily added to Allegro, but SBCL is very easy to 
> setup, and in a project where are are attempting to get as 
> many developers interested as possible, many whom may not have 
> university access to Allegro, it seems important that we have a CL 
> that is ready right out of the box (we may even group all the source 
> for Wilber and other necessary requires in to one .gz for easy 
> deployment in to each developer's repository).
>
> However, from my experience using SLIME with Allegro and SBCL, SBCL is 
> extremely slow and is generally buggy on OSX do to Apple's Crash 
> Reporter actively looking for Mach exceptions because Mac OSX has no 
> idea that a program can do  a SIGSEGV and keep on living.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> I would also like suggestions on a GUI environment for cl-semantic, 
> perhaps ltk (uses Tk).
>
> Also, please start posting directly to the message group instead of to 
> individual email addresses so that we can leverage our new home at 
> common-lisp.net. We have had many people joint the development and 
> announce list and we owe it to them to let everyone know what is going 
> on, even if they have yet to join the project.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brandon Werner
> cl-semantic project administrator
> http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-semantic/
> brandon.werner at mac.com
>
> cl-semanic is a collection of RDF/OWL extraction and relationship 
> parsing macros written in Common Lisp.
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