Re: Introductory post, CL projects, and more!

Hi All;

On Monday 16 June 2003 01:03 am, Dan Moniz wrote:
> I'm happy to see John Morrison, who I know from the E3 project, and happy
> to see that MaK has at least one CL project kicking around! =]

First, I'd like to return the "hi" to Dan.

> Also happy to see Luke Gorrie, who I know by proxy from friends in common
> and language research sites like Lambda the Ultimate. Slitch is excellent,
> and I hope we can further convert Luke's excellent Erlang hackery skills
> and techniques to CL.

I would love to see a Linux distro in which either SBCL or CMUCL is
used as "init," and the maximum possible stuff is in CL.  God Bless
You.

> I'm really enthusiastic about the movement around better XML tools in CL.
> I've thought for a while that CL was possibly the best language for really
> innovating XML manipulation and processing, and I'm glad people smarter
> than me have been playing with the idea and releasing some cool code. I
> have a lot of poorly defined interests in the synthesis of XML, RDF, CL,
> and a lot of the technology now being labeled under "The Semantic Web" and
> social software.

I've got to concur here.

Even though what I'm doing is centered on just getting my problem done
(and doing it in CL is easier than in C++), and even though as a
CL-lover, I look askance at XML as 5% of the power of CL at 200% of
the cost, I can just see the requirement for interchanging human
behavioral models and task networks in XML.

Also, there are pieces of "agent" software (RETSINA?) that I know
people are going to want to interface to some of our simulation
software, so I am interested in run-time use of XML-based Agent
Communications Languages.

Thus, I am very interested in contributing to commercial-friendly
(i.e., non-GPL) CL XML tools.  I would much prefer them to the C++
based XML parsers and whatnot we're already using at work.

So, I expect I am going to start looking around at the various CL XML
tools available around here, and see if I can't both help and be
helped.  (If anybody has any thoughts or insights into the matter,
please drop me an email!)

> Thanks to Miles for creating the list!

Same here!

-jm

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