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Notes for this release ====================== This release is the last one before a major redesign of ECL, which will affect issues like Unicode streams and handling of interrupts. This is also the first one to follow the new numbering scheme, inspired by that of Ubuntu. The release number follows t...

Juanjo, I'm happy you found LispForum. :) I'm using ECL right now for a project because of its small size. I'm happy that it exists and that you're SO responsive to all things that surround it. (Honestly, folks, if you haven't used ECL yet and seen how quickly Juanjo knocks off the bugs that are re...

Get ECL to work with CLX and StumpWM people will love you forever. ;) Oh, that would not be difficult. Portable CLX used to build in ECL. The only problem is that I lost my account in the project and got disconnected from it. There have been reports that the current library loads with some patches,...

Please can we stay on topic? There are many implementations of Lisp in C, and there are implementations of Lisp in JVM and .NET . We can all have our cake and eat it. The discussion on this raises interesting facts, but I'm not sure it is going anywhere. Sorry for trolling. I get too emotional some...

I would like to see a common lisp based on llvm , with llvm as back-end. ( more ) ECL is aiming at that right now ( http://tream.dreamhosters.com ). The goal is to replace the current bytecodes compiler and the lisp to C compiler by a common frontend that optionally produces either the same bytecod...

That is entirely my point. On one side, you need developers to port something. On the other you don't, because the work is already done and you can just use it for free. How can you say that requiring more developer time and effort is not a limitation? No, I think you do not get the point. Your arg...

Maybe not many Lisp programmers care about threads, but I do, and so does anyone who writes a GUI or web app. Which is a pretty huge slice of programming nowadays, in my world anyways. When we have 32- or 64-core CPUs in a few years, are Lispers still not going to care? Who's doing the work to keep...

Sorry for the late answer. I discovered Lisp forums quite late this month :-) It's a question of Clojure + JVM, or Common Lisp + Windows/Linux/OS X/others + a C compiler. Either way you're tied to and limited by your platform. How many Lisps have threading on Windows right now? How many even work cr...