Luke Gorrie lgorrie@common-lisp.net writes:
+2003-12-06 Helmut Eller e9626484@stud3.tuwien.ac.at
- swank-allegro.lisp: New file.
Hey, cool! How far along is this port? I ask because (as some of you may know) I'm working on a Common Lisp book and one of my big problems is that I need to describe a proper Lisp programming environment but I don't want to be tied to any one implementation or IDE. Over the past few days I was thinking of using emacs + SLIME as one example and maybe the Allegro IDE as an example of a non-emacs environment.
The more implementations SLIME can be used with, the more plausable this becomes. And of course to the extent that SLIME is the best emacs intergation it gets even more plausable. I haven't actually had a chance to play with SLIME yet myself but I've read the backlog of messages on this list and looked at the code some--I'm impressed with the momentum you guys seem to have.
So I guess what I'm saying is, if you keep cranking out cool stuff the way you have over the past couple months I may be able to give you a big fat plug in my book. And that'll be even easier for me to do if you have good integration with Allegro. I'd volunteer to help out with some hacking but I'm already in up to my neck with writing the book.
I do have some contacts over at Franz--Steve Haflich is my technical reviewer--so if there's anything I can do from that perspective to facilitate the Allegro SLIME port, let me know. (Though Steve is also, as I understand it, the author of ELI so there may be limits to how much he or anyone at Franz will care about SLIME.)
-Peter
P.S. Are any of the SLIME hackers in the Bay Area? If so, I'd love to buy somebody dinner in return for getting a sit-down-at-a-computer tour of SLIME. I'm sure I can figure stuff out on my own but having someone who knows what they're doing show me the good bits will probably save me a bunch of time and decrease the chance I'll miss them altogether.