I have mutilated the slime package of Sean Champ with the current CVS HEAD of slime, changed the version number to something without epoch and I'm actually pretty happy with it.
The moral problem now is to upload it, or not. There is a dire need for slime in debian and the package seems to work correctly. The problem is that the packager seems unresponsive to email already for quite a while and I don't want to hijack his package. Should I just bite the bullet and upload or wait a little more... Sigh.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Monday, April 25, 2005
European Common Lisp Meeting
Yesterday I went to the ECLM, which has out-grown Arthurs living room by a very wide margin indeed: 92 participants!
The talks were interesting and diverse. PrimeTrader looked like a real killer-app, but I must admit that I was confused when people starting laughing at the "simplified architecture" because I agree with the 'simple' part. My day-job must do more damage to my judgment then I feared.
The Slime and sbcl presentations both gave me a strong urge to package up some stuff, while the Linj (a non-DFSG free Lisp to Java and back converter) was impressive. Next time I'm forced to write Java I know what to do. For climacs I see a strong future not (only) as a general editor, but as a framework on which people can build LL editors. When the problem becomes too complex for a gui you need a LL, and if you need a LL, why not use an editor that 'knows' you LL and can make editing code a breeze?
The weak-references talk was good because it gave people clear instructions on how to solve most weak references related traps, while the presentation of the two CL vendors was impressively optimistic from the both of them. I've seen other feelings being transmitted.
Last and most importantly: I won a raffle and I could buy a signed copy of Practical Common Lisp and I must say the quote by Xach is correct: the book feels and reads really nice. Impressively nice in fact. I think it will convert people to CL just by the quality of the work itself! Oh, and it is also a nice CL book :-).
Several people insisted to buy me a drink for my debian work. I'm stunned...
My only regret is that we had to leave before I could chat with more people. The way back was a lot longer and slower then how we came, but still I managed to get home before 23:00.
The talks were interesting and diverse. PrimeTrader looked like a real killer-app, but I must admit that I was confused when people starting laughing at the "simplified architecture" because I agree with the 'simple' part. My day-job must do more damage to my judgment then I feared.
The Slime and sbcl presentations both gave me a strong urge to package up some stuff, while the Linj (a non-DFSG free Lisp to Java and back converter) was impressive. Next time I'm forced to write Java I know what to do. For climacs I see a strong future not (only) as a general editor, but as a framework on which people can build LL editors. When the problem becomes too complex for a gui you need a LL, and if you need a LL, why not use an editor that 'knows' you LL and can make editing code a breeze?
The weak-references talk was good because it gave people clear instructions on how to solve most weak references related traps, while the presentation of the two CL vendors was impressively optimistic from the both of them. I've seen other feelings being transmitted.
Last and most importantly: I won a raffle and I could buy a signed copy of Practical Common Lisp and I must say the quote by Xach is correct: the book feels and reads really nice. Impressively nice in fact. I think it will convert people to CL just by the quality of the work itself! Oh, and it is also a nice CL book :-).
Several people insisted to buy me a drink for my debian work. I'm stunned...
My only regret is that we had to leave before I could chat with more people. The way back was a lot longer and slower then how we came, but still I managed to get home before 23:00.
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