[Gardeners] A batteries package for Common Lisp?

[Gary King]

Hi Brad,

The goal of including the batteries with Lisp is a very good one, and  
perennial. Cf. Peter Seibel's Lispbox, Edi Weitz's (I forget what it  
is called), packages like CL-Utilities, Drew Crampsie's and Marco  
Baringer's project (again, the name escapes me) and my own extremely  
moribund Enterprise Lisp.

The real problem, I think, is not the software, it's the community.  
Lisp has a great community (though some would disagree). However,  
CLers seem more likely to build their own batteries (or cold fusion  
nuclear power plants!) than look for existing ones whereas other  
languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, etc) seem to promote a garden more  
easily. IMHO, the desire for a garden and for batteries is there but  
the mechanism hasn't appeared yet.

That said, I don't want to discourage you from trying again. One of  
these projects is going to stick and that will be great!

share peace,
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