> As it happens, I'm at the beginning of writing a CL for a very constrained, very weird little environment (hope to have a Show HN about it in a few months to

> As it happens, I'm at the beginning of writing a CL for a very constrained, very weird little environment (hope to have a Show HN about it in a few months to a year), and the host and device parameters are extremely useful to me. I would love to see an example of pathnames being useful today. In my experience they're the only part of Common Lisp that is an active impediment to getting work done on a Unix system. It would be awesome if we could have a generic file naming mechanism that would also represent URIs. Unfortunately Common Lisp pathnames manage to suck at both Unix filenames and URIs.