Sam Steingold wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 04:16:10PM -0500:
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").
From my perspective SLIME just doesn't work well enough that I would have put some steam behind it.
Of course ilisp, which did work better for me, is now way too behind the times to be rescued. So I guess I'm stuck unless I want to go with Hemlock? Franz and Lispworks all have their own Emacs and CL editor, respectively. That might have to do with it :-) Martin -- Martin Cracauer, Programmer, ITA Software Inc, 617-714-2130