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Monday, July 12, 2004 |
Ted Leung posts about the Croquet project, a 3D environment in Squeak. He has some nice quotes, in particular (with a Lisp slant):
Lisp is the number one programming language idea of all
time. Smalltalk's contribution was to build encapsulation on top of the
ideas in Lisp. Someone asked a question about the market voting or
something like this. Kay's reply went something like this: Most people
don't understand Lisp -- does that make it bad? Most people understand
Maxwell's equations -- does that make them bad? One of the things that
Kay is doing now is just going around and giving talks to remindpeople of the great ideas in Lisp and Doug Engelbart's work
5:34:25 PM 
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Bill Clementson continued his 'Java in Common Lisp' explorations with a post about a JNI wrapper called jfli. This sounds very nice, with SWT examples working. I explored this area using Corman Lisp
and it worked very well although I never got anywhere near the features
that jfli has. This would probably be a good approach if accessing Java
libraries for Common Lisp is needed. It would enable, for example,
writing 'Common Lisp Servlets' that could plug into any Java Servlet
container.
5:13:27 PM
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Bill Clementson has been posting about using Java from Common Lisp lately. One recently mentioned optioned is implementing a JVM in Common Lisp. This approach has been used in Smalltalk, most noticeably a project called 'Frost'. Another example is 'Pocket Java'
for Pocket Smalltalk.. The reason I point this out is these worked
reasonably well from all accounts so there is hope that a Common Lisp
implementation would eventually be quite usable.
5:09:58 PM
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