[pro] multiple Lisp images

[Yakov Zaytsev]

Hello, all

I again have a scenario as follows. Say, you have an enterprise-y or
CAD-y application. From one side, you extend it in Lisp. Be it a
plugin (i.e. LISPWORKS:DELIVER with :DLL-EXPORTS) or standalone Lisp
process which communicates with the application via some provided SDK
APIs; these two cases do not actually differ for us.
>From the other side, you have your own fat Lisp application which you
want to communicate with the plugin. Example: NPAPI plugin provides
data for later processing by big Lisp.
Here is a problem arises. How to pass sexps as transparently between
the two Lisps as possible? Yeah, I programmed in Erlang for some time.
Basically, I want that kind of "transparency", though I don't thing
that it definitely must be message passing between quasi-processes..
There are might be some variations but I guess you got the idea