[Gardeners] Birth day of CLD

[arnuld]

> Today is the first birthday of the Common Lisp Directory!


yippe ya... happy Birth Day to Common Lisp Directory :-)

> First I want to thank all the people who have submitted entries to it, with
> special thanks to Paolo Amoroso who have submitted the majority of them. So
> thanks guys and please go on! :)

yes, Paolo Amorso deserves at least bucket-full of thanks ;-)


> Some bits of history:
> The Common Lisp Directory started as a reaction to the Reddit's failure to
> use Common Lisp:
> Reddit: Let's rewrite a better one in Common Lisp.
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/c0159fbbc6496def
>
> Then a few days later this evolved into what is now the CLD:
> The Common Lisp Directory: Day 1
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/59d6bd23fc21f2f5
>
> It is interesting to notice that one year later, it is still the same Lisp
> process that is running. The project has evolved from Linkit to the CLD
> without ever quitting the Lisp process. It has never crashed, even though
> the application and the CLOS classes have changed a lot of times. In the
> same time, I had to restart several times the Apache process and reboot a
> lot of time the 3COM firewall router in front of the server.
>
> At the time I'm writing this, after one year and 7 days, the same Lisp
> process has served 111 977 267 HTTP requests.

Really, id id not know its Histroy, its happy to see that Lisp won again..


> Any other suggestions?

nothing  regarding CLS but regarding Lisp. i really want that Lisp
have some good Standard Library like C++ has.


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