[Openmcl-devel] Lisp on the iPhone

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Rainer Joswig wrote:

> 'm not so sure how they selected the
> participants, now. Looks like they now accepted 4000 our of 25000
> requests.
> Initially it was even less, I read. So, probably, I was expecting that
> there was some selection.

I expected there to be some selection as well but in retrospect I  
think it was just first come first served. Both I and my son were  
accepted and I know I didn't give any details of what I'd be working  
on. Being an ADC Select member may have helped me (or not). My son may  
have specified what he was doing since he was using the iPhone SDK for  
a school project.

> But I just checked on
> their site and one can apply without being asked about the nature of
> the software. So, maybe the Smalltalk guy
> just ports the VM and then sees what Apple will do?

It'll be interesting to see how Apple handles this since it was one of  
the big grumbles about the beta that no interpreters were allowed  
effectively shutting out languages other than objective-c.

regards,

Ralph







Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
raffaelcavallaro at mac.com