Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: General GCL quesions

[Jeff Dalton]

Quoting Chris Hall <address@hidden>:

> Jeff Dalton <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > FOSS?
> 
> Free/Open Source Software?  Aka, FLOSS - Free/Libre/Open Source
> Software.  (Personally, FSF 'free' is quite sufficent for me.)

Thanks!

> > I don't know what's been said in the last few years on c.l.l about
> > GCL, but back when I used to read it regularly, most of the nagative
> > comments seemed to be because it was a CLtL 1 implementation; but
> > usually this was from people who didn't use it and were arguing
> > for some other implementation.
> 
> I've recently been spending a lot of time in the older c.l.l postings
> looking for GCL stuff, and the sense I get is yes, CLtL1 *plus* the
> unfortunate hiatus in development.  I have a vague sense that it might
> almost be more of the latter, but I can't really say why.

Yes, I think that's right.  Other implementations had people
actively working on them, using them, and promoting them.

-- Jeff