On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 05:46 -0700, Mark Tarver wrote:
> On 20 Oct, 17:29, Mark Tarver <··········@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 20 Oct, 17:03, Mark Tarver <··········@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > >http://wiki.alu.org/Lisp-friendly_Web_Hostinggivesa list. Any
> > > experiences?
> >
> > > Mark
> >
> > Interesting - so far I've got
> >
> > Yes; we supported it but no more (Bodhost I think).
> > Yes; I can put it on, but I'm not too familiar with it. (Zill.Net)
> > Yes; we've got it. But nobody here is really expert in it so if you
> > screw up you're out there.
> > (GrokThis.Net).
> >
> > Mark
>
> Thanks for all your useful suggestions.
>
> What I need is a sandbox in which to play around with this stuff.
> Lambda Associates is hosted on top of Windows and my host is not Linux/
> Lisp friendly (Perl or PHP). I haven't the time to move that site
> now (sooo busy :( ) and its not an issue right now. This is new work
> I'm looking at.
>
> I think the best move is to get Linux onto my old 600MHz laptop which
> I don't use and clean off Windows '98. I expanded the memory back in
> '02, so it should be good.
>
> A couple of computer shop guys did install Ubuntu onto my desktop but
> it turned out to be a complete PITA. Basically so much did not work
> and the Internet connection was unworkable and no C compiler.
..huh? Googling for "c compiler ubuntu" yields this as a promising
result at the first page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingCompilers
$ sudo aptitude install build-essential
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)
$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("Hello\n");
return 0;
}
$ gcc -g -Wall -o hello hello.c
$ ./hello
Hello
$
> And a text editor that worked on only one file at a time! (I kid you
> not).
Uh, gedit (standard text-editor included in a basic Ubuntu install) has
tabs by default, but doing Lisp in any generic text-editor is
brain-damaged, so:
$ sudo aptitude install emacs-snapshot-gtk
..then get Slime from CVS etc. .. this is standard procedure for the
free Lisps. If you want you can run the Swank (server) part of Slime on
the Linux box and connect to it remotely from your Windows
box. ...never mind.
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