JSS special issue on Lisp-Stat

Hi LispStat people,


Frederic Udina amd myself have made a proposal to the Editor of The Journal
of Statistical Software to publish a special issue on LispStat.


The answer from JSS was quite enthusiastic and we go ahead with the
project.


Please find enclosed the outline of the proposal and, please consider the
possibility of adressing to us any proposal of a paper that could be
included in the Issue, no matter if it fits in our proposal or expands it.


Pedro Valero <[email protected]>
Frederic


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  A proposal for a JSS special issue on Lisp-stat.
  Frederic Udina
  Pedro Valero


  Abstract
  Lisp-Stat is a statistical environment that seems to have
  lost its momentum as many of its most dedicated users/programmers
  have moved to other statistical environments such as R or Java .
  However, there are still some people around using it and also there
  are others that did the move to other languages/environments but
  that confess to miss some of the most beautiful features of
  Lisp-Stat. The papers collected here would be a description of this
  situation. Hopefully, the issue could be useful to people interested
  in Lisp-Stat per se, or to people looking for those features unique
  to Lisp-Stat. Also people working with other statistical
  environments could learn some new methodology or ideas that could be
  incorporated in his own work


  Titles for this special issue (we have several)
  0. XLISP-STAT is not dead
  1. Lisp-Stat: Live and Let Die
  2. Is Lisp-Stat still alive?
  3. The future of Lisp-Stat
  Sections and possible participants


  0. Sticking with Lisp-Stat (or living with Lisp-Stat)
  This section would include descriptions of projects still actively
  developed by the authors and also discussion about why they are not
  carrying out the move to other statistical environments. This discussion
  might/should include descriptions of the alternatives to lisp-stat they
  have considered and the reasons why do not fulfill their requirements. The
  papers suggested here would be:
  - Papers from the two big projects still alive (Arc and ViSta).
  - Papers from people using Lisp-Stat as an everyday statistical software tool
  and that are still developing projects.


  1. Moving to somewhere else (or leaving Lisp-Stat to die)
  This section would include papers from people that gave up Lisp-Stat for
  other statistical environments. Descriptions of their experiences and of
  the features that still miss would be of interest not only to Lisp-Stat
  users but also to promote new developments in those other statistical
  environments
  - Paper from an author that did the move from Lisp-Stat to R
  - Paper from an author that did the move from Lisp-Stat to Java.
  - Paper from an author that did the move from Lisp-Stat to Something Else 
like
  Tcl/Tk, C++ or Python.


  2. The future of Lisp-Stat
  The last section would include with a paper (or two) about the future of
  Lisp-Stat. This paper might include some suggestions about modifications
  or improvements that might make it again a popular language (very
  optimistic), lessons or capabilities that could be moved to other
  environments (such as its dynamic graphics, its interactivity or the user
  interface building techniques) or at least a word about if there is still
  room for it in the world of the statistical environments.

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