Re: I wonder if I'm missing something...
"Yuri Davidovsky (as work at disclosure dot ie)" <[email protected]>
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> On 7 Nov 2025, at 16:41, David McClain <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I’m wanting to inhale bytes from a stream and read out into the app layer as single-floats. All without gratuitous copying of information. Don’t we all? Have you ever realised that there is absolutely no way in Common Lisp to read binary floats from disk? Has it ever occurred to you that Common Lisp has close to zero file system operation utilities? (we do have the Taj Mahal of pathnames to admire though. but why?). Have you noticed that Common Lisp does not have even a concept of sockets? Multithreading model? Do I need to say more, or does it hurt enough already? The specification for Common Lisp is that of an abstract spherical lisp in vacuum with boring but essential everyday programming stuff sent to walk the plank. As the result Common Lisp failed to unify all the implementations in a meaningful manner since all the practical stuff that you deal with on daily basis was not specced and left out for implementations to decide, leaving them as incompartible as they were prior because those things are the very foundations of general purpose programming language. _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html