On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 02:01:42 +1000, Franz Kafka wrote:
> A GNU version of a program like Genera will allow a new group of Lisp
> hackers to see why Lisp is such a good language.
I clearly don't understand some subtle advantage of this Genera system. In
what sense is it /different/ from emacs? Is it just the dialect of lisp
involved that's at question?
> We already have several applications that would run in such an
> environment: Maxima, CL-HTTP, CLIM, and EMACS. just some examples!!!!!
Emacs has numeric and symbolic math packages, at least one web browser. I
don't know what CLIM is (a mailer? emacs has a couple of those), but
there are examples of just about everything else.
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Andrew
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