[Axiom-developer] Re: lisp portability

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, address@hidden wrote:


| The claim that C++ is "standard" is as weak or strong as the claim
| that ANSI is standard. No vendor complies 100% because opinions
| vary.

You don't need to have it 100%.  More over, you just don't need a standard;
you need a useful standard.  Those were the points.

| If you look at the ANSI lisp standard you'll see "comments" and
| "unresolved" issues.  I haven't looked at the C++ standard but I'd bet
| that the same things exist there.

There are many; but none that poses similar issues as those encountered with
the various Lisp implementations.

-- Gaby