Very newbie question. Which free Common Lisp to start with?

From: Donald Chen
Subject: Very newbie question.  Which free Common Lisp to start with?
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 19:38:48 +0000
Message-ID: <7173bf39.0203051138.31b64b9a@posting.google.com>

Hi, there.

Could you point out which free common lisp to start with? 
( in terms of teaching myself to think in lisp )

I use emacs on a daily bases, do you think emacs-lisp is a common-lisp
compatable one, and is a good start point?

Any URL you recommand to download the one you recommand?

Thanks a lot,

Donald

Re: Very newbie question. Which free Common Lisp to start with? Marco Antoniotti
Re: Very newbie question. Which free Common Lisp to start with? Dr. Edmund Weitz

From: Marco Antoniotti
Subject: Re: Very newbie question.  Which free Common Lisp to start with?
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 21:45:21 +0000
Message-ID: <y6celiy4rke.fsf@octagon.mrl.nyu.edu>

······@hotmail.com (Donald Chen) writes:

> Hi, there.
> 
> Could you point out which free common lisp to start with? 
> ( in terms of teaching myself to think in lisp )
> 
> I use emacs on a daily bases, do you think emacs-lisp is a common-lisp
> compatable one, and is a good start point?

Emacs Lisp gets "close" to a Common Lisp if you stick

	(require 'cl)

in your .emacs files.

> Any URL you recommand to download the one you recommand?

Look at http://www.alu.org and choose from there.

Cheers

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From: Dr. Edmund Weitz
Subject: Re: Very newbie question.  Which free Common Lisp to start with?
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 20:11:59 +0000
Message-ID: <m3d6yi6agg.fsf@dyn138.dbdmedia.de>

······@hotmail.com (Donald Chen) writes:

> Hi, there.
> 
> Could you point out which free common lisp to start with?  ( in
> terms of teaching myself to think in lisp )

<http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~csr21/lispfaq.html#AEN58>

(Note that all the commercial vendors have free trial versions
available which include very good environments for learning the
language.)

> I use emacs on a daily bases, do you think emacs-lisp is a
> common-lisp compatable one, and is a good start point?

Emacs Lisp is _not_ Common Lisp, there are major differences. You
should use one of the implementations listed above.

HTH,
Edi.

-- 

Dr. Edmund Weitz
Hamburg
Germany

The Common Lisp Cookbook
<http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/>