23:50:28pjbJosh_2: it is: you're mixing two completely different philosophies, that of image-based development, and that of file-based unix development.
23:51:16pjbJosh_2: There's a reason we say BOOTING a lisp image. It's really a virtual machine with another operating system. And the VM needs to interface with the host VM. It's not simple.
23:51:18oni-on-ionbut udp is network ? even though it has the name unix, how else to talk to non-lisps without extern I/O ?
23:51:47pjboni-on-ion: we use sockets, thru a C unix library.
4:13:39pjbcnomad: in the golden age of Internet, you could just do whois lispm.de # but this time has been over for a long time, since the spammers, etc.
4:13:58pjbAh, the good old golden age of the Internet…