James Amundson wrote:
>
> > 2) Is anyone interested in working on gcl? I am happy to offer what
> > help I can here as well, especially as it appears that maxima will
> > work best with gcl for at least the near future. A person familiar
> > with the common lisp standard would be extremely helpful :-)
>
> I think serious consideration should be given to letting GCL wither
> away. (Please feel free to disagree.) We aren't that far away from
> getting Maxima to work well with ANSI Common Lisps. There are already a
> number of serious Lisp people working on CLISP, CMUCL and SBCL. Perhaps
> Lisp maintenance efforts would be better spent there.
>
Certainly GCL should not be damped on purpose, but I worry that this will
happen "automatically" unless we'll find a person(s) who is willing
to support GCL (I already can't rebuild GCL after recent Linux upgrades).
I'm not so optimistic about this. Personally I'm interested in developing
Maxima not any particular Lisp system.
Vadim
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[ Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy@mail.ru> <vvzhy@td.lpi.ac.ru> ]