[slime-devel] Re: Daily ChangeLog diff

[Peter Seibel]

Luke Gorrie <lgorrie at common-lisp.net> writes:

> +2003-12-06  Helmut Eller  <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at>
> +
> +	* swank-allegro.lisp: New file.

Hey, cool! How far along is this port? I ask because (as some of you
may know) I'm working on a Common Lisp book and one of my big problems
is that I need to describe a proper Lisp programming environment but I
don't want to be tied to any one implementation or IDE. Over the past
few days I was thinking of using emacs + SLIME as one example and
maybe the Allegro IDE as an example of a non-emacs environment.

The more implementations SLIME can be used with, the more plausable
this becomes. And of course to the extent that SLIME is the best emacs
intergation it gets even more plausable. I haven't actually had a
chance to play with SLIME yet myself but I've read the backlog of
messages on this list and looked at the code some--I'm impressed with
the momentum you guys seem to have.

So I guess what I'm saying is, if you keep cranking out cool stuff the
way you have over the past couple months I may be able to give you a
big fat plug in my book. And that'll be even easier for me to do if
you have good integration with Allegro. I'd volunteer to help out with
some hacking but I'm already in up to my neck with writing the book.

I do have some contacts over at Franz--Steve Haflich is my technical
reviewer--so if there's anything I can do from that perspective to
facilitate the Allegro SLIME port, let me know. (Though Steve is also,
as I understand it, the author of ELI so there may be limits to how
much he or anyone at Franz will care about SLIME.)

-Peter

P.S. Are any of the SLIME hackers in the Bay Area? If so, I'd love to
buy somebody dinner in return for getting a sit-down-at-a-computer
tour of SLIME. I'm sure I can figure stuff out on my own but having
someone who knows what they're doing show me the good bits will
probably save me a bunch of time and decrease the chance I'll miss
them altogether.

-- 
Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp