Dear Common Lispers,
I've submitted this article to ELS 2014. Happily, the deadline has been extended by two weeks, which leaves me time to rewrite it better, with your feedback.
Can some of you proofread the article, both/either at a low-level and a high-level?
I feel I didn't tie the parts of the article together enough, especially the end, that I rushed. What is worse, the limit is 16 pages, and I went overboard (NB: appendices don't count), so I'll have to cut stuff or move it to appendices.
The source code: https://github.com/fare/asdf3-2013/blob/master/asdf3-2014.scrbl
The latest compiled versions: http://fare.tunes.org/files/tmp/asdf/asdf3-2014.html http://fare.tunes.org/files/tmp/asdf/asdf3-2014.pdf
Is this article useful at all? What high-level questions would you like answered?
Note how writing this article has led to a lot of improvements to ASDF and cl-launch in the last few weeks, and is driving some of the discussions currently on asdf-devel.
—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.