LispView: leverage through integration
Although Lisp was the host for many of the first graphical user interface (GUI) packages, popular activity in this area has shifted to more primitive but widely used languages such as C and C++. One explanation for this shift is that while Lisp's strength in rapid prototyping and development led to the initial progress, it also tended to inspire an imperialist attitude: applications were often crafted exclusively in Lisp, even when part of the application could make use of an existing conventional language library. We believe the ideal way to construct a CommonLisp GUI package today is to integrate proven C libraries with an object-oriented Lisp framework.