On 20 January 2011 13:16, Sam Steingold sds@gnu.org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Drew Crampsie drewc@tech.coop wrote:
The root of the perceived problem is a lack of resources, not a lack of effort or desire on the part of the "lisp community".
I think Franz, Lispworks, ITA et al are vital parts of the "lisp community". I think the fact that none of them is paying anyone to maintain SLIME, ALU wiki, common-lisp.net &c is indicative of understandable but deplorable corporate myopia ("public goods cannot be produced by private businesses").
To be fair, i've never asked for financial contributions from anyone, and perhaps that's something i should do. Perhaps a banner ad with my sad face ala wikipedia. I've got a small team of developers with experience doing web and systems apps in lisp, and we could be convinced to work for peanuts given the glory involved ;).
In all seriousness, i think it's time i ask the community for some help before i get (more) jaded and apathetic.
Cheers,
drewc
-- Sam Steingold http://sds.podval.org