I just ordered the book. I'm looking forward to reading
it and learning from it.
I've concluded from other threads that cmucl would be
a good choice for an implementation.
Now as to "IDE":
I use emacs or xemacs as my editor for programming,
and am an experienced programmer (18 years) but new
to lisp. My OS is linux and my bread-butter is web-based
database programming.
Question:
I would welcome recommendations as to what emacs library
I should use for programming lisp.
There appears to be quite a number of choices available.
TIA
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From: Edi Weitz
Subject: Re: Practical Common Lisp - Platform?
Date:
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On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:33:38 -0000, Tim Johnson <···@johnsons-web.com> wrote:
> I just ordered the book. I'm looking forward to reading it and
> learning from it.
It's a great book and Common Lisp is a great language to learn.
You'll have fun.
> I've concluded from other threads that cmucl would be a good choice
> for an implementation.
Yep.
> Now as to "IDE":
>
> I use emacs or xemacs as my editor for programming, and am an
> experienced programmer (18 years) but new to lisp. My OS is linux
> and my bread-butter is web-based database programming.
It's very good that you already know Emacs - that'll help a lot.
> Question:
> I would welcome recommendations as to what emacs library I should
> use for programming lisp.
>
> There appears to be quite a number of choices available.
Yes, but actually the only real choice at the moment (except for the
IDEs coming with the commercial Lisp implementations) is SLIME.
That's also the one that's used in the book itself and kind of
promoted by its author.
<http://common-lisp.net/project/slime>
Get the CVS version.
Cheers,
Edi.
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Tim Johnson <···@johnsons-web.com> writes:
> I just ordered the book. I'm looking forward to reading
> it and learning from it.
>
> I've concluded from other threads that cmucl would be
> a good choice for an implementation.
>
> Now as to "IDE":
>
> I use emacs or xemacs as my editor for programming,
> and am an experienced programmer (18 years) but new
> to lisp. My OS is linux and my bread-butter is web-based
> database programming.
>
> Question:
> I would welcome recommendations as to what emacs library
> I should use for programming lisp.
>
> There appears to be quite a number of choices available.
>
I'm still in the learning curve, but I've found the combination of
CMUCL, emacs and SLIME to be really good. I initially started with
ilisp, which was also quite good, but I like SLIME very much.
When you get to database connectivity, I've found the combination of
clsql and postgres to be very good.
If your running on Debian Linux, everything except slime is available
as a debian package. There are some deb packages of slime available
(see other recent posts in this group).
Tim
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On 2005-07-07, Tim X <····@spamto.devnul.com> wrote:
>
>> Question:
>> I would welcome recommendations as to what emacs library
>> I should use for programming lisp.
>>
>> There appears to be quite a number of choices available.
>>
> I'm still in the learning curve, but I've found the combination of
> CMUCL, emacs and SLIME to be really good. I initially started with
> ilisp, which was also quite good, but I like SLIME very much.
<grin>Can't go wrong with a name like that.
> When you get to database connectivity, I've found the combination of
> clsql and postgres to be very good.
Just downloaded the latest clsql. I've had my eye on it for some
time and it appears well-maintained and frequently updated.
Am using mysql mostly these days.
> If your running on Debian Linux, everything except slime is available
> as a debian package. There are some deb packages of slime available
> (see other recent posts in this group).
On RH, migrating to Slack, got slime via cvs.
Yes, I'm looking forward to this. I've arrived at lisp
from rebol - whose author indicates to be very much influenced
by lisp. Problem is that rebol doesn't have a very large user
base and I'm often reticent to deliver rebol code when there
probably isn't another rebol programmer in this state....
Besides, rebol doesn't compile......
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