From: Morgan Rodwell
Subject: REQ: recommendations on Lisp compiler and books
Date:
Message-ID: <36C6305F.E1AB393@cadvision.com>
Hi,
I am an amateur programmer looking into learning Common Lisp because it
looks extremely powerful.
1. Which CL tool should I use? Allegro CL, LispWorks, ???
2. Is there a good introductory book on Lisp that explains some of the
basics of what Lisp can do without instantly going into S-expressions
and recursion. Something that starts with "this is how to start a lisp
program"?
Thanks
Morgan Rodwell
FBN Software
From: Johan Kullstam
Subject: Re: REQ: recommendations on Lisp compiler and books
Date:
Message-ID: <m2emnsewd6.fsf@sophia.axel.nom>
Morgan Rodwell <·······@cadvision.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am an amateur programmer looking into learning Common Lisp because it
> looks extremely powerful.
i am in the same boat you are. i am finding that i actually like lisp
a lot. however, i am still undoing C/C++/fortran braindamage and find
lisp baffling at times. with a some more experience i hope this gets
better.
> 1. Which CL tool should I use? Allegro CL, LispWorks, ???
i am using allegro CL from franz. they have a nice `trial' version
which works great in linux. (how much does the full version cost
anyway?)
> 2. Is there a good introductory book on Lisp that explains some of the
> basics of what Lisp can do without instantly going into S-expressions
> and recursion. Something that starts with "this is how to start a lisp
> program"?
hmm. this is hard to find since every system will have peculurarities
unto themselves. for general lisp stuff, paul graham has
_ansi_common_lisp_ and _on_lisp_, both of which are excellent.
i use emacs to drive a lisp listener. for some handy instructions on
getting started try:
<URL:http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~howe/handouts/lisp-and-emacs.html>
i was hopelessly lost until i found this page. hope it helps you too.
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Johan Kullstam [········@ne.mediaone.net] Don't Fear the Penguin!