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Defmacro: A User Interface Definition Language in Common Lisp (defmacro.org)
9 points by ryantmulligan 6160 days ago | 5 comments


4 points by ryantmulligan 6160 days ago | link

Not exactly the Arc challenge, but an interesting example of simplifying presentation. Maybe we don't need to use tables, maybe we don't need to care.

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3 points by okplus 6160 days ago | link

The UI language features a great deal more separation of code and design than the arc web framework. I know libraries aren't a high priority at the moment, but this guys UI is pretty expressive. To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from the demo app, but it had a very rich presentation layer, and his actual code was very simple.

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2 points by almkglor 6160 days ago | link

Agree. Anyone willing to port this to Arc? He ended up not using CLOS anyway, right?

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2 points by ryantmulligan 6160 days ago | link

My impression was that it gets its hints from CLOS but uses its own description framework on top of that. Though I haven't used it.

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1 point by NickSmith 6160 days ago | link

I'm definitely the wrong man for the job (inexperience) but I imagine that something like this, written in Arc, would be the perfect showcase for Arc's succinctness/power.

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