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Anything else we might add? / Re: Hi! And Some Questions
November 23, 2011, 09:54:11 AM
Thanks for your replies, HPW and m35.


Quote from: "m35"By "COM support in newLISP", do you mean newLISP's ability to work with COM objects, or being able to utilize the newLISP interpreter as a COM object(s)?


m35, I was more thinking about getting newLISP to work with COM objects.



I saw in an earlier post http://newlispfanclub.alh.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1983">COM in newLISP that a while back you were working on several approaches to COM automation.



Is your http://www.newlisp.org/modules/various/winscript.lsp.html">winscript module current? Am I correct in thinking that winscript wraps VBScript, which then wraps COM?
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Anything else we might add? / Re: Hi! And Some Questions
November 11, 2011, 04:22:12 PM
Thanks for your insight, cormullion and Lutz!
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Anything else we might add? / Hi! And Some Questions
November 11, 2011, 09:12:00 AM
Hi!



I stumbled on to newLISP on the SQLite site. I have always been intrigued by LISP, and I like the pragmatic, minimalist, scripting approach this version takes. The documentation is thorough, the videos are helpful, and the community seems friendly. What's not to like?



But, in researching the site, I have come up with some questions:



1. I was interested in the Windows DLL, but it seems that you can only 'shell out' to newLISP. I was hoping for COM Automation, and while I found mention of it in the forum, I couldn't find anything current in the Modules section. What is the state of COM support in newLISP?



2. I recently came across Dart, which is Google's take at an alternative to Javascript as a web client-side scripting language for browsers. It struck me that a targeted version of newLISP could be an ideal candidate for such a role. How cool would it be to have a newLISP web client interacting with a newLISP web server? Does this idea resonate with anyone?



3. As an extension of #2, I am curious to know how newLISP compares to a modern Javascript implementation like V8. But the benchmarks here look out-of-date, and the Shootout site doesn't list newLISP anymore, so it's hard for me to say. Does anyone have a sense of how the two compare?



Thanks for your time!

-Ken
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