Re: Request for comments: project proposal

"Robert P. Goldman" <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:08:39 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clump
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Ng" == Ng Pheng Siong <[email protected]> writes:

    Ng> The keyword is 'platform', the construction of which,
    Ng> (perceived) lack of libraries notwithstanding, CL is very good
    Ng> at.
    >> 
    >> Where did that keyword come from?

    Ng> Emacs is a platform. Emacs can talk to the outside world, e.g., via ILISP
    Ng> or SLIME to CL processes, via comint to various interpreters, via FTP (and
    Ng> perhaps WebDAV) to web content management platforms like Zope,
    Ng> etc.

To paraphrase Dilbert:

"My project is a platform, too!"