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> the rest of them share non-trivial programs freely Heh. Most Scheme dialects don't even have source compatibility despite implementing the same standards. C
by tazjin 9y ago
> the rest of them share non-trivial programs freely
Heh. Most Scheme dialects don't even have source compatibility despite implementing the same standards.
Common Lisp lets you write portable (between different CL implementations) applications, but it's easy to end up doing something that is implementation-dependent if you're not careful.
- ScottBurson 9y ago> it's easy to end up doing something that is implementation-dependent if you're not careful. I wouldn't say that. I've done a fair amount of porting code between CL implementations, and it's usually pretty straightforward. Implementation dependencies tend to be found only in code doing OS-y things like threads, external processes, network sockets, etc. This code is usually not difficult to find, and I would think that the authors would have expected it to be implementation-dependent. Computational code usually ports with zero effort, even when the machine word size changes.
- DonHopkins 9y agoSays the guy who wrote an interactive C compiler for Lisp machines! ;) "C combines the power and performance of assembly language with the flexibility and ease-of-use of assembly language." https://github.com/navoj/clisp-c https://github.com/navoj/clisp-c