gregor@arisia.xerox.com (Gregor Kiczales) (09/15/90)
We propose forming a new usenet newsgroup called comp.object.clos. This would be an unmoderated forum for discussion of the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) object-oriented programming language. Topics appropriate for disucssion would include: programming techniques, implementation techniques, comments about existing implementations, extensions to the language, relation to other object-oriented programming languages, educational materials etc. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with CLOS, it is part of the emerging ANSI standard for Common Lisp. At present, there at least 10 CLOS implementations in the market or under development. The formation of this newsgroup is part of a two step process of reorganizing the existing CommonLoops@Xerox.com mailing list. Currently, this mailing list is the largest CLOS users mailing list, we estimate that over eight hundred people receive it as email. In the first step, this mailing list will be moved and renamed to CLOS@MCC.COM. The second step, pending approval of the usenet community, is to create the new newsgroup and gateway it with this mailing list. This new gatewayed format will allow many of the people who currently have technical trouble reading the mailing list to get access to it. In addition, we beileve that the nature of the discussion is such that many people would prefer to receive it as a newsgroup. We estimate that several hundred of the people who currently receive the mailing list as email will immediately switch to reading it as a usenet newsgroup. Gregor Kiczales Yasuhiko Kiuchi Xerox PARC
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (09/16/90)
comp.object.clos, hey sounds great to me. is there a CLOS implementation for akcl that's free or free-ish? --Ed