From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!nycmny1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.ulv.nextra.no!nextra.com!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Using Lisp to Call another program in linux? Date: 10 Nov 2002 18:47:44 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3245942864137679@naggum.no> References: <376b0355.0211071729.3278c1da@posting.google.com> <87r8dvutaj.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> <8gsmya4251.fsf@galapagos.cse.psu.edu> <3245884607279821@naggum.no> <8gpttd4xc8.fsf@galapagos.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1036954064 888 129.240.65.201 (10 Nov 2002 18:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Nov 2002 18:47:44 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:46202 * Scott Schwartz | My impression is that the Common Lisp community wants a sort of Lisp | Machine Shell, and to ignore or hide the real system. Yes. That is what portability means. | In contrast, I couldn't find any mention of POSIX in the Common Lisp | Hyperspec, and lisp implementors usually demote native functions to | something you access via a "foreign function interface". That's all very | toy-like, albeit a very big and resource intensive toy. Amazing. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.