[Openmcl-devel] AWS API code (re: GUI:BACKGROUND-PROCESS-RUN-FUNCTION)

[Tim Bradshaw]

On 25 Jan 2012, at 20:52, Zach Beane wrote:

> Possibly, but I find you can get a long way by not caring about
> portability and using the facilities of your favorite CL to their
> fullest extent.

I agree strongly with this.  Lisp people spend forever getting hung up on the lack of portable x, when in my experience this is almost never a real problem.  I've spent way longer porting emacs lisp code between two versions of Emacs than I ever have porting CL code between two CL implementations.