Comments on: Goodbye, OpenLaszlo http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2007/01/06/goodbye-openlaszlo/ Macs, programming, and technology Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:02:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Yang http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2007/01/06/goodbye-openlaszlo/#comment-10133 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:45:10 +0000 http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2007/01/06/goodbye-openlaszlo/#comment-10133 I have for the past month been using OL. Like any other full-featured GUI system, it is complex and takes time to learn. That said, I'm really liking OL. With no specific issues cited, distaste for XML sounds a bit superficial (and yes, I've done substantial work in CL, Haskell, Scala, and other languages). If you really can't stand it, just use some s-exp-to-XML source translator. :) Semantics are what matters, and OL has terrifically useful abstractions. (It's also lightyears ahead of JavaFX, which I also happened try.) I have for the past month been using OL. Like any other full-featured GUI system, it is complex and takes time to learn. That said, I’m really liking OL. With no specific issues cited, distaste for XML sounds a bit superficial (and yes, I’ve done substantial work in CL, Haskell, Scala, and other languages). If you really can’t stand it, just use some s-exp-to-XML source translator. :) Semantics are what matters, and OL has terrifically useful abstractions.

(It’s also lightyears ahead of JavaFX, which I also happened try.)

]]> by: Zach Beane http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2007/01/06/goodbye-openlaszlo/#comment-2597 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:27:46 +0000 http://outsidethebox.blankslate.net/2007/01/06/goodbye-openlaszlo/#comment-2597 I enjoyed ANSI Common Lisp when I first read it, but the more books I read about Common Lisp the clearer it became that Paul Graham has a quirky style worth some effort to avoid emulating. (Adapting the ideas without the style is handy.) P. Tucker Withington is one of the folks working on OpenLaszlo, he's an old-school Symbolics Lisp hacker. I enjoyed ANSI Common Lisp when I first read it, but the more books I read about Common Lisp the clearer it became that Paul Graham has a quirky style worth some effort to avoid emulating. (Adapting the ideas without the style is handy.)

P. Tucker Withington is one of the folks working on OpenLaszlo, he’s an old-school Symbolics Lisp hacker.

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