On 3/26/10, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> A general question: How much should we cater to broken Lisp
> implementations?
I'd like to say broken implementations are someone else;s
problem but that's not really true, since the user sees the
incorrect behavior as a bug in Maxima. So I'd say go ahead
and try to cope with implementation-specific bugs as time
and interest permit.
I'm dreaming of a distant future time when one Lisp implementation
will crush the others with its irrefutable combination of correctness,
speed, portability, and clever artwork; sort of a "twilight of the gods"
situation. Then we'll make one final CVS commit to strip out the
#+foocl's for all the vanquished implementations and raise high our
drinking horns to heartily toast the One True Lisp.
Til then I guess it's in our interest to work around the bugs.
Yours wagnerianishly,
Robert Dodier