Hi Brad, The goal of including the batteries with Lisp is a very good one, and perennial. Cf. Peter Seibel's Lispbox, Edi Weitz's (I forget what it is called), packages like CL-Utilities, Drew Crampsie's and Marco Baringer's project (again, the name escapes me) and my own extremely moribund Enterprise Lisp.
The real problem, I think, is not the software, it's the community. Lisp has a great community (though some would disagree). However, CLers seem more likely to build their own batteries (or cold fusion nuclear power plants!) than look for existing ones whereas other languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, etc) seem to promote a garden more easily. IMHO, the desire for a garden and for batteries is there but the mechanism hasn't appeared yet. That said, I don't want to discourage you from trying again. One of these projects is going to stick and that will be great! share peace, -- Gary Warren King, metabang.com Cell: (413) 885 9127 Fax: (206) 338-4052 gwkkwg on Skype * garethsan on AIM _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
