[RP] ratpoison in LISP

[Jonathan Walther]

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I've been going through SICP, Paul Grahams beginners book,
and my Little Schemer.  Also looked at CLX and have cmucl
installed.

The time is here; why wait?  CLX is a LISP analog of Xlib.
A straight port of ratpoison to LISP should be fairly easy,
then it could only get better from that point on.  Yes,
the resulting binary would probably be "big", but the benefits
of using lisp make that irrelevant.  We could just ship
source in a form like this:

#!/usr/bin/lisp -f -
<our code here>

or something like that.

I suspect since CLX is so little used (but it IS used) we might
find some bugs in it etc.

According to the O'Reilly book, when X was released it originally
supported both C and LISP (xlib and clx), and I believe it
still does today.

Jonathan

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