[Gardeners] Draft ANSI spec clarification

[Marco Antoniotti]

On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:18 AM, David Newton wrote:
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>>
> I guess I don't really think the standard is the issue anyway, at least
> not for me. The primary issues for me aren't language issues but
> implementation issues, topped by threading, cross-implementation 
> library
> installation, and environment setup.
>
> Being a developer and not a system administrator, I feel pretty 
> strongly
> that I shouldn't have to fight a battle every time I want to set up a
> Lisp web application development environment, worry about whether or 
> not
> threads are supported, figure out how to install all the libraries I
> need every time, or rediscover how to integrate my platform's windowing
> system into the standalone application I'm developing.

But that is exactly what standards are for.  And in the CL world you 
need to take into account several implementors commercial and not.

Cheers
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