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9:05:50
whoman
reading that "CLIM was rejected from CL" or along those lines, just got me to comment in here thats all
9:18:35
beach
I seriously doubt that it would even have been considered by a single person on the committee to include a GUI library in a language standard.
9:19:22
beach
I even wonder whether CLIM existed when the standard was voted. I mean, CLOS was adopted pretty late in the process and CLIM is all CLOS.
9:20:45
beach
It sounds like something that someone would invent in order to discourage people from using CLIM, Common Lisp, or both.
9:34:09
whoman
not that i believe my remembered scrap of text with any kind of seriousness, but, just considering it as possible in order to figure things out for sure
9:38:38
whoman
it was along these lines; perhaps not exactly "Rejected". unrelated, i don't know what makes a standard when it comes to openstep, smalltalk, java, emacs, win32, cocoa, x11... but, i dont see how it would be impossible to make sense of a language standard that includes a GUI library. i feel that you've expressed more than once some strong feelings against that possibility, but perhaps there...