Subject: Re: reading/writing bytes smaller than 8 bits? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 2000/01/26 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3157913150482948@naggum.no> * 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