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The premier implementation of Common LISP today -SBCL - doesn't and apparently won't ever run on Windows. Not at release quality, anyway. Windows users should

The premier implementation of Common LISP today -SBCL - doesn't and apparently won't ever run on Windows. Not at release quality, anyway. Windows users should be pleased Clojure runs at all. Well, Windows users should switch, but failing that, they should be pleased...

joe_the_user 16y ago
I only run Ubuntu these days but a language that can't make itself multiplatform is just advertising its non-functionality. Languages of value should be abstract and multipurpose.
- cageface 16y ago
  Windows compatibility is hardly a trivial problem. I'd much rather see the limited resources available for Clojure and SBCL devoted to taking more steps forward than another sideways. Besides, most Windows devs are allergic to anything that doesn't come on an MSDN disc anyway.
- alnayyir 16y ago
  Almost every windows dev I know (and I know many, owing to being a .NET dev professionally prior to Django/Python) are ignorant of anything that doesn't come from Redmond. It'd be wasted effort, and the communities are smart enough to know that.
- alnayyir 16y ago
  POSIX compliance is itself multiplatform and multipurpose.