R devel - Dec 2005 - reinventing the wheel....

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Byron Ellis <ellis at stat.harvard.edu>
> If we wanted to be truly radical we'd just accept that graphics
> devices and event loops are just special cases of the connection and
> merge the whole thing, thus more-or-less reinventing CLIM. :-)
Eventually, all programming languages grow up and become Lisp.

(progress, progress, and more joyful progress on CLS).

best,
-tony

blindglobe at gmail.com
Muttenz, Switzerland.
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can
easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).

Untrue! They may also become Smalltalk ;-)

On Dec 29, 2005, at 4:37 AM, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Byron Ellis <ellis at stat.harvard.edu>
>
>> If we wanted to be truly radical we'd just accept that graphics
>> devices and event loops are just special cases of the connection and
>> merge the whole thing, thus more-or-less reinventing CLIM. :-)
>
> Eventually, all programming languages grow up and become Lisp.
>
> (progress, progress, and more joyful progress on CLS).
>
> best,
> -tony
>
> blindglobe at gmail.com
> Muttenz, Switzerland.
> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which  
> we can easily
> roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
>
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