Hello folks, I've been reading Peter's book. It is probably the third or fourth introduction I've had to L*sp (I include Emacs Lisp) but "Practical Common Lisp" seems to have stuck better.
Nearly finished reading it, but now I feel lightning waiting to crackle from my fingers[1] and I'm looking around for GUI Apache hooks MySQL interface I suspect I should have started at the bottom. The Google search "wxcl sbcl" got me to your mailing list but was otherwise disappointing. Cello's mission statement fits what I want. clg, garnet, LTk and McCLIM sound promising. The CLiki and Common Lisp Directory have been quite helpful. My component choices have been based more on impressions picked up from various places and less on learning enough to try out each option. I know that sticking with SBCL instead of trying CLISP or CMUCL is a form of tunnel vision, but currently I feel I've nailed down one corner of Lisp and it's a bit early to start backtracking for want of a GUI library. On the SQL front, my experience with Perl & Oracle causes me to wonder if there's an asynchronous SQL API, even to the standard blocking forms of a database handle - I see no reason a process should _have_ to block while it waits for a big SELECT, but was never much of a fan of threads. I'll have a look around... it's comforting to know that there are some gardeners out there. Matthew #8-) [1] re: Glenn on http://wiki.alu.org/RtL_Highlight_Film _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
