Daniel Kochmański [1] has been continually improving the features and performance of this very advanced library. Kudos to him, because it’s a lot of thankless d

Daniel Kochmański [1] has been continually improving the features and performance of this very advanced library. Kudos to him, because it’s a lot of thankless dirty work dealing with the intricacies of X and the CLIM standard [2], and his work is hitherto relatively unappreciated. CLIM is such an interesting and different GUI paradigm, and when the implementation works it’s both a joy and a mind-bending experience. (CLIM has been implemented and re-implemented commercially and in open-source many times over in the past 30 years, but the OS’s keep changing!) In one of my first jobs I wrote a little SQL database editor with LispWorks CLIM, and it was really nice to have “object presentations”. The non-technical staff of the company could easily edit complex data/objects in this database without knowing anything about what it was behind the scenes, and it didn’t take all that much programming to make it possible. [1] http://turtleware.eu/turtleware.html http://turtleware.eu/turtleware.html [2] http://bauhh.dyndns.org:8000/clim-spec/index.html http://bauhh.dyndns.org:8000/clim-spec/index.html