Re: [RP] ratpoison in LISP

[Ryan Yeske]

Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> writes:

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

Right on.
 
> 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:

I don't think a straight port is the best way to go.  I think just
writing a minimal set of event handlers and window mapping functions
in lisp and providing hooks to each will be enough.
 
> #!/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.

Is clx is maintained by the X Consortium?

Ryan