History of CLIM? - comp.lang.lisp

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John Thingstad

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More options Jan 30 2005, 6:15 pm

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From: "John Thingstad" <john.things...@chello.no>

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:15:04 +0100

Local: Sun, Jan 30 2005 6:15 pm

Subject: Re: History of CLIM?

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:11:39 GMT, Peter Seibel <pe...@javamonkey.com>
wrote:

> Can someone point me to a history of CLIM? I gather that it was
> somewhat of a joint venture of different Lisp vendors from the days
> when "Lisp vendors" included folks like Symbolics. Was it based on the
> Lisp Machine's UI frameworks. Or was it an all new thing.

> 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).
> Were there any major CLIM-based applications?

> -Peter

Hard to find anything. However I found the following link:

http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller/uims-clim/clim-intro.html

Pay particular attention to the subsection:

"History, Status and Further Developments of the Ideas Behind CLIM"

far down in the document..

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