From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: reading/writing bytes smaller than 8 bits? Date: 2000/01/26 Message-ID: <3157913150482948@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 578038566 References: <3157825117110563@naggum.no> <47lgxnrhf.fsf@beta.franz.com> <3157890087157420@naggum.no> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 948924900 24300 195.0.192.66 (26 Jan 2000 22:15:00 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879 or +1 510 435 8604; fax: +47 2210 9077; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jan 2000 22:15:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * gat@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat) | Nothing prevents a vendor from issuing a proposal that includes | proprietary technology or trademarks. Politics often prevents such | proposals from being adopted. That's why they tend to be rare, and also | why it is entirely justified to ask the question. well, if they tend to be rare, I'd have expected some _justification_ for the implicit expectation that this was one of those rare cases. however, to zoom out a bit, if people in the Common Lisp community wonder why there's so (comparatively) little communal development activity, do consider the responses received to the work that _is_ being done when it is published. as far as I have seen, the response is generally "thanks. now where's the rest?", no matter how much you do. it almost sounds like a Norwegian tax collector, one of nature's strongest de-motivating forces. #:Erik