>> (project :name "Ant" :default "echo"
>> (target :name "echo"
>> (echo :message "Hello World")))
>>
>> Tasks would be functions or macros.
>
> Anyone interested in a CLISP version of Ant?
You'd be surprised how much less lines of code you'd need when
compared to the Java version, really.
No really I wouldn't! Java is a *very* verbose language, Lisp is
probably one of the least verbose languages (apart from the ())
I toyed with the idea when I first read Peter Seibel's "Practical
Common Lisp (online here[1], but it's well worth of buying) and even
managed to get something like the above snippet working, actually more
like
(defparameter *project*
(project :name "Ant" :default "echo"
(target :name "echo"
(echo :message "Hello World"))))
(run-targets *project*)
I think a problem would be that CLISP Ant would also have to take
build files in two formats (build.xml & build.sexp) so as to be
partially bwc - of course CLISP can compile to native code and
therefore would (in some cases) be easier to install than Ant + JRE
Will the new BSF release support any Lisp dialect?
Not that I know of, but some of the other languages are fairly lispy
(Ruby is sort of known as MatzLisp)
I've been looking at a couple of Lisp-on-jvm things, Kawa, and ABCL,
but Kawa is scheme not lisp, ABCL is alpha/bleeding edge and didn't
actually work (at all).
Stefan
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
Great book, even if you hate lisp, the anecdotal footnotes are still
interesting & funny
Kev
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