Re: Presentation software

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 04:38, Daniel Barlow wrote:
> For my recent presentation at the Linux 2003 conference (SBCL
> threads), unimpressed with the general state of available presentation
> software for Linux, I decided to write my own.

Pretty cool.  Is this the only desktop productivity app in lisp?  Surely
not, but I can't think of any others.

> * Unlike magicpoint, the file format is not whitespace-sensitive.
>   Instead it uses sexps.
> 
> (slide
>  (title "LinuxThreads: signals redux")
>  (ul
>   (li "There is some disconnect between the traditional Linux clone() model and
>  the needs of POSIX threads")
>   (li "LinuxThreads, to accomodate these, does strange things with signals to
> ensure they get delivered to the threads that POSIX says they should")
>   (li "We " (i "don't") " need our signal handling messed with")
>   (li "And actually we don't even want this behaviour.  Lisp programmers
> aren't going to care about the POSIX thread model")))

Nice.  This allows for gui presentation builders that use this as a
backend serialization format, right?

-- 
Miles Egan <[email protected]>

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