[clean-list] Clean on Unix

[Jerzy Karczmarczuk]

Martin Wierich wrote:

> ... Our policy is that Windows and MacOS are our
> "main" platforms and the Unixes are not, (although we have by far 
> more Unix users than MacOS users). 

Then why Mac is your focus? Well the answer might be trivial, YOU
work on Macs. I still remember old glorious days, with Clean having
a sligtly bastard, Lisp-like syntax, and working on Mac only...
I wrote then my first graphical program in a purely functional
style...


> As you might know this means, that you have less libraries (ObjectIO) 
> and tools (profilers, optimizing linkers, CleanIDE) for
> the Unixes ...


This might change when the source gets opened.
BTW, as you might know, the Haskellians are interested in Clean IO
library. It will be a bit paradoxical if this library get ported
to Unix through Haskell first, isn't it?


Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Caen, France