Re: getting started with LISP

[Phillip Garland <pgarland@u.washington.edu>]

"LISP" is a family of languages. There are three main existing LISP
dialects: Common Lisp, Scheme, and Emacs Lisp.

I use Common Lisp the most. If you want to learn Oommon Lisp I'd
recommend installing the sbcl package, which is a Common Lisp
compiler, and getting SLIME, a Lisp IDE for Emacs
(http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/) from CVS (it isn't packaged
for Debian yet since it hasn't had a real release yet). There are also
numerous Common Lisp libaries in Debian that you can find with
apt-cache search.

~Phillip


On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Randall Smith wrote:

>I'd like to learn LISP.  Can someone tell me how to get it installed /
>get started on Debian?  What packages do I install, etc?
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>Randall
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>

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