--- Helmut Eller e9626484@stud3.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Bill Clementson bill_clementson@yahoo.com writes:
Thanks for the clarification. Incidentally, what
was
the rationale for using inferior lisp mode instead
of
ilisp to "boot-strap" development?
[snip]
I think the reason is that Eric Marsden, the author of SLIME's initial version (at that time called SLIM) uses inf-lisp and not ILISP. I don't know what Luke used before SLIME, but I too used inf-lisp.
SLIME is now good enough for developing SLIME and at this stage it simpler to add any missing functionality to SLIME itself than to make it work with ILISP. The advantage of inf-lisp over ILISP is that inf-lisp is simpler and more robust. Since we use inf-lisp primarily as fallback when everything else fails, inf-lisp seems to be preferable.
Fair enough. But, could you elaborate on where you feel inf-lisp is more robust than ILISP? I know that there were a lot of quality issues a while ago; however, I believe that most of those have been addressed in the last couple of releases. I would have thought that ILISP today would be no less robust than inf-lisp.
- Bill
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