[gnu.emacs] GNU Lisp ??

eho@cognito.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) (08/07/89)

I read in the recent GNU manifesto/news that the system languages for GNU will
be C & Lisp.  When is the Lisp part going to happen ?  (especially one that
adheres to common-lisp but with strong networking capabilities (at least it
should include rpc, tcp/ip, ..etc... as part of Lisp) & extensive foreign
funcalls features so that one can truely writes multilingual programs (e.g. an
application written in a mix of C, Lisp, Postscript, C++ & maybe Pascal).  Of
course, when I said the Lisp part, I meant a standalone Lisp not one that has
to invoke Emacs in order to use Lisp.
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Eric Ho
Cognitive Science Lab.,		Princeton University
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regards.

-eric-

rms@ai.mit.edu (08/07/89)

No one is now working on a Lisp system specifically for GNU.

It is possible that the MIT Scheme project will eventually provide a
Common Lisp implementation that we could use.  If you want to help,
know enough about Lisp implementation to be useful, and are prepared
to do a significant amout of work, contact cph@ai.mit.edu.  It will
probably get done faster if people work harder on it.