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20:57:03
jcowan
If there had been a SBCL-class compiler for CL in 1987, then GCC-in-CL might have been feasible. But CMUCL was only running in MacLisp at that point.
20:58:27
jcowan
the earlier compiler was running on the Perq and on MIPS machines, but was certainly not suitable for writing a general purpose C compiler in, not to mention a portable one
6:54:39
frodef
beach: security based on preventing pointer arithmetics by way of a trusted compiler, has been my conclusion too.
7:09:13
beach
Sorry, was away. Monday mornings are crazy around here. Now I should be around a bit more.
7:13:21
beach
Now, since CLOSOS depends on having a Common Lisp implementation with first-class global environments, I must finish SICL first.
7:31:52
beach
Things are a bit involved because of some fundamental decisions I made, and the purpose of which were to give me a more maintainable system.
7:34:41
beach
I firmly believe that the system code is simpler because of the way I decided to do it, i.e. start by building the MOP classes and generic functions.
7:38:07
no-defun-allowed
i can't do the approximately equal sign but CON~= (CONSS with S's rotated) was one in mind
7:41:33
no-defun-allowed
beach (IRC): tbh an urban dictionary post with only two upvotes isn't very authoritative but hey it makes for easy googling still