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Who is Paul Graham? Just kidding :-). Actually I wonder if I will win any points for developing my system on the CLISP platform. BTW does anyone know why Pau

Who is Paul Graham? Just kidding :-). Actually I wonder if I will win any points for developing my system on the CLISP platform. BTW does anyone know why Paul didn't end up using CLISP for Viaweb?

pg 19y ago
We did use CLisp.
- anaphoric 19y ago
  Really, I though I read/was told that you guys switched over to a commercial LISP when you delivered. Hmm. Nice. Did they ask you if you extended it any way? Also out of curiousity did you run it as an executable image in the production version?
  - pg 19y ago
    No. In fact it still runs on CLisp now, I believe.
    - anaphoric 19y ago
      I assume its the linux build because we are having a devil of a time getting full ISO-8859-1 encodings to work under windows. But perhaps that's because I want to support Swedish characters. Maybe I should kill that requirement. In any case this is great news because I was a bit concerned about going all the way to market on CLISP. Some manager at Boeing was suggesting to me that I might need to go with Allegro or something else. It sounded expensive. And my belief now is that I need to keep costs/prices low/reasonable to enter my market. But in the end I think the manager was just expressing his FUD about open source.
      - jey 19y ago
        I know nothing about CLISP, but you might want to switch to a Unix platform just because the Unix ports are probably better maintained. If there's actually a character encoding bug, it could go for months without being fixed under Windows.
        anaphoric 19y ago
        Yes we are supporting both Linux and Windows. And Linux definitely has been better behaved. Still it hasn't been too bad under windows. It's just when we want to do something like support foreign characters then we run into trouble.
- omouse 19y ago
  An MzScheme question: How the heck are you running News.YC on top of it? The web servlet stuff that comes with PLTScheme feels like a pain to setup (lack of a good tutorial is the problem I think).
  - pg 19y ago
    We're not using their web servlet code. All we use from Mzscheme is the core language.

Who is Paul Graham? Just kidding :-). Actually I wonder if I will win any points for developing my system on the CLISP platform. BTW does anyone know why Paul didn't end up using CLISP for Viaweb?

pg 19y ago

We did use CLisp.

anaphoric 19y ago
Really, I though I read/was told that you guys switched over to a commercial LISP when you delivered. Hmm. Nice. Did they ask you if you extended it any way? Also out of curiousity did you run it as an executable image in the production version?
- pg 19y ago
  No. In fact it still runs on CLisp now, I believe.
  - anaphoric 19y ago
    I assume its the linux build because we are having a devil of a time getting full ISO-8859-1 encodings to work under windows. But perhaps that's because I want to support Swedish characters. Maybe I should kill that requirement. In any case this is great news because I was a bit concerned about going all the way to market on CLISP. Some manager at Boeing was suggesting to me that I might need to go with Allegro or something else. It sounded expensive. And my belief now is that I need to keep costs/prices low/reasonable to enter my market. But in the end I think the manager was just expressing his FUD about open source.
    - jey 19y ago
      I know nothing about CLISP, but you might want to switch to a Unix platform just because the Unix ports are probably better maintained. If there's actually a character encoding bug, it could go for months without being fixed under Windows.
      - anaphoric 19y ago
        Yes we are supporting both Linux and Windows. And Linux definitely has been better behaved. Still it hasn't been too bad under windows. It's just when we want to do something like support foreign characters then we run into trouble.
omouse 19y ago
An MzScheme question: How the heck are you running News.YC on top of it? The web servlet stuff that comes with PLTScheme feels like a pain to setup (lack of a good tutorial is the problem I think).
- pg 19y ago
  We're not using their web servlet code. All we use from Mzscheme is the core language.