Re: Naive DEFSYSTEM replacement
"Robert Goldman (as rpgoldman at sift dot net)" <[email protected]>
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On 28 Jul 2025, at 11:50, Christopher Stacy (as cstacy at dtpq dot com) wrote: > The other "portable" languages don't have these issues, > because they think "portable" means "everything is either > Unix or Windows and we don't care about semantics". To be fair, languages like Java, Python, etc. were built after the Great Extinction, when "Unix or Windows" became enough. And it's not that the standardizers didn't care about semantics, it's just that with so much diversity, they couldn't really get any without an unacceptable amount of effort and fighting. _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html