[Gardeners] Standard ASDF operations for understanding and running applications

[Rob Myers]

First a quick introduction. My name's Rob Myers and I've been using  
Lisp for a couple of years now to write art generation programs.  
Prior to that I worked on the MacOS 8 and MacOS X ports of Gwydion  
Dylan and on an unfinished Carbon port of DUIM. The things I'd most  
like to see addressed in Lisp are the "Reddit Complaints" of a lack  
of portable thread and socket libraries.

Paolo wrote:

 >(asdf:load-op 'asdf:run-op :my-app)
 >(asdf:load-op 'asdf:demo-op :my-app)
 >(asdf:load-op 'asdf:help-op :my-app)

IMHO this could do with a little sugar for newbies, something like:

(asdf:help)

if I'm in my app's package, or at most

(asdf:help my-app)

if I'm not. A newbie will find the use of packages, quotes, and  
keywords all in one s-expression just too much. :-)

- Rob.