On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Aug 9, 11:15 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> .....
> >
> > ECL is massively better than CLISP, and is also the *only* other lisp
> that
> > is currently supported and builds 100% from source code.   Both CMUCL and
> > SBCL are immediately ruled out just because of that reason.  This is one
> of
> > the DoD requirements for Sage -- they absolutely will never consider
> using
> > CMUCL or SBCL (I have asked).
> >
>
> Could you perhaps quote for us the DoD requirements?  (and who in DoD
> requires them).


No, I definitely can't.   Sorry I can't go into any further details.

 -- William


>   I have never heard such a statement before, and wonder about the
> context for this, as well as whether there are other requirements.  (I
> have, in the past, received funding from DARPA, Office of Naval
> Research, Army Research Office, as well as other non-DoD sources.)
>
> Thanks
>
> RJF
>
>
> RJF
> >
>


-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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