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1 point by shader 6038 days ago | link | parent

>easy-install environment...

That would be cool. As far as I know, s-exps are s-exps no matter which lisp they're written in. The general environment might need a good way of defining syntax so that it could be more helpful than just a text editor with REPL, but that sounds like something lisp should be capable of doing pretty well.

The only problem is that everyone would argue over which language to implement it in. How about we just start in arc, and let them all join us later?

Actually, it sounds like an extended DrScheme, which already supports several different languages of scheme in the editor. If the interface was improved a bit, and it was extended to handle CL and Arc, then it should suit admirably. Unfortunately, I don't know how the language selection feature works, so I don't even know if that's possible.



4 points by cchooper 6038 days ago | link

Arc is probably a good language to implement it in, because it has such a small core and is so flexible. I also think Arc's users are a bit more experimental and ambitious than most Lisp users. Consider the fact that Arc will probably have a shared-nothing garbage collector before any other dialect!

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