Re: [Axiom-developer] more graphics

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

I mused over this same question some time ago -- wondering if a scheme
parser in gcl would be useful for a 'unified' lisp.  Here is the
response to a post I submitted to c.l.l:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_thread/thread/4645b33f088b0d32/89389ff0f1a8e984?q=maguire&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.lisp%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dmaguire%26start%3D0%26scoring%3Dd%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#89389ff0f1a8e984

One interesting link that turned up was

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/scmxlate/scm2cl.html

In general, there is a lot that could be done here, but the
cost/benefit ratio is unclear.
 
Take care,

Bob McElrath <address@hidden> writes:

> Don't you hate it when people reply to their own posts?
> 
> I'm new to the lisp world, but the Functional PostScript library:
> 
>     http://www.scsh.net/resources/fps.html
> 
> is a scheme extension embedding postscript operators.  Note:
> 
>     We'd like to have a back-end that renders directly to the screen.
>     This could be done by linking FPS's Scheme with the free Ghostscript
>     C library of PostScript primitives to render to X. Then we'd have a
>     high-level, device-independent graphics system for doing interactive
>     screen graphics.
> 
> A postscript-driven rendering engine seems an elegant way to unify
> axiom's interactive graphics with lisp, texmacs, and
> latexwiki/mathaction.
> 
> Bob McElrath address@hidden wrote:
> > Cross-forwarding this interesting post.
> > 
> > TeXmacs uses scheme as its extension language.  Since scheme is a
> > dialect of lisp, can scheme programs be run in a lisp interpreter
> > without modification?  Could the texmacs interpreter be replaced with
> > gcl or one of the more comprehensive lisps that runs axiom?  Could then
> > data structures used by texmacs (and any graphing component it may
> > evolve) be shared by texmacs and axiom?
> --
> Cheers,
> Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
> 
>     "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the
>     votes." -- Joseph Stalin
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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