Re: mxls

"Michael D. Cohen" <[email protected]> Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:55:11 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.statistics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Steve:
   you wouldn't want to take it on alone, but if there were a core of folks 
who could get behind the objective-c version and make it a viable option in 
the OS-X world, it might catch fire again. I could be wrong, but my sense 
is that quite a few of fans of xlispstat are in OS-X now.
   --michael cohen

--On Friday, July 4, 2003 16:06 -0400 "Steven D.Majewski" 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I'm also still here on the list, but I'm at a different job where I'm
> no longer doing statistics or using XlispStat.
>
> I still love lisp and I still admire the XLS graphics system.
> Although there were always some annoying limitations in the
> graphics implementation, the basic design was quite nice.
>
> If I can find the time to hack, a couple of projects come to mind.
>
> 1) revive the attempt to make xlispstat run on top of other lisp
> implementations, and thus take advantage of some of the compilers
> and optimizations available.
>
> 2) do a modern reimplementation of XLS style graph objects in objective-c
> along with GL support, and then figure out how to hook them into
> Lisp, Python, etc.
>
> But at the moment, I'm still working my way thru a couple of OSX/Cocoa
> books.
>
> -- Steve Majewski
>
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