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DEFSYSTEM (Was: Re: Managing large LISP code)
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- Subject: DEFSYSTEM (Was: Re: Managing large LISP code)
- From: marcoxa@butsomi.cs.nyu.edu (Marco Antoniotti)
- Date: 03 Nov 1993 15:20:03 GMT
- In-reply-to: grant@pentagon-gw.army.mil's message of Sat, 30 Oct 1993 22:52:36 GMT
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- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Hello Lispers!
This discussion about how to manage large projects and the recent RFD
made me wonder about the future of DEFSYSTEM.
I normally use CMUCL with Mark Kantrowitz's DEFSYSTEM and I am very
happy with it. I also used it (though in a limited way) with CLISP and
it still seems to work fine.
Now, this DEFSYSTEM (beyond being portable over many CL
implementations) is a sharp departure from the one found in GENERA. MK
DEFSYSTEM uses a "structural" description of the system, while GENERA
uses a "procedural" description (as pointed out in the MK DEFSYSTEM
manual).
I would like to see the MK DEFSYSTEM offered by the Lisp vendors as a
standard tool. This would make *my* life easier and, I believe, also
that of many other Lisp Users.
Bye
--
Marco Antoniotti
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