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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      

A great posting from Frank Benn to rec.martial-arts about getting the correct distance and footwork for punching.

5:18:08 PM      

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      

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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