Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!decwrl!labrea!rocky!andy From: andy@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Andy Freeman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: lisp environments summary Message-ID: <811@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 18:14:08 EST Article-I.D.: rocky.811 Posted: Tue Dec 8 18:14:08 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 19:13:37 EST References: <613@umbc3.UMD.EDU> <325@siemens.UUCP> <323@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> <329@siemens.UUCP> Reply-To: andy@rocky.UUCP (Andy Freeman) Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department Lines: 17 Keywords: Interlisp, Editing, Files In article <329@siemens.UUCP> steve@siemens.UUCP (Steve Clark) writes: >Good point. I maintain that the non-Interlisp systems are wrong, however. >It is clearly more advanced to treat a file as a database of definitions of >functions, data, structures, etc. than to treat it as a string of characters >that might have been typed at the keyboard. However, since the rest of the >world hasn't caught up yet, there are bound to be incompatibilities. The world will always have incompatibilities. Systems which can not manipulate "foreign" definitions are doomed to niches and eventually die, as has happened to InterLisp. -andy -- Andy Freeman UUCP: {arpa gateways, decwrl, sun, hplabs, rutgers}!sushi.stanford.edu!andy ARPA: andy@sushi.stanford.edu (415) 329-1718/723-3088 home/cubicle