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Paolo Amoroso

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From: Paolo Amoroso <amor...@mclink.it>

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:54:39 +0100

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Subject: Re: History of CLIM?

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Peter Seibel <pe...@javamonkey.com> writes:
> Can someone point me to a history of CLIM? I gather that it was

Links to most of the online documentation on CLIM are available at:

CLIM
http://www.cliki.net/CLIM

For historical information I suggest that you check the CLIM mailing
list archives, at least the ones from 1990 to 1992, which was the time
around which CLIM was being designed and in transition from version 1
to 2. The archives from 1996 are also a useful resource for later
developments--or lack thereof.

Those archives are a rich source of material on CLIM design decisions,
the systems it was influenced by, vendor involvement, user acceptance
and needs, etc. You will also find some information on the history of
Lisp (e.g. the creation of ALU).

You may also contact Scott McKay, John Aspinall or other CLIM
designers.

> somewhat of a joint venture of different Lisp vendors from the days
> when "Lisp vendors" included folks like Symbolics. Was it based on the

The original consortium behind CLIM was called "International Lisp
Associates".

> I also gather that it never really took off (though it now seems to be
> experiencing a bit of a renaissance thanks to the McCLIM project).

Are you working on Practical CLIM? :)

The lack of information on CLIM is among the main reasons why I
started my blog.

> Were there any major CLIM-based applications?

You can get an idea of the kind of code CLIM was used for from this
list:

Application
http://mcclim.cliki.net/Application

But this page lists only applications for which source code is
available in some way, and it may not be a representative sample.

Paolo
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