Re: Presentation software

Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:02:42 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clump
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Miles Egan <[email protected]> writes:

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

IRC clients are not productivity apps?  Hellbeans, I've been
badly misadvised ;-)

>> * Unlike magicpoint, the file format is not whitespace-sensitive.
>>   Instead it uses sexps.

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

In principle, yes.  In practice, I guess that anyone with the clim-fu
to design a gui presentation builder could also design their own
backend that renders the presentation a good deal more prettily than
Acclaim currently does.


- -dan

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