Re: getting started with LISP
Phillip Garland wrote:
"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.
Is Scheme a proper subset of Common Lisp? What do you make of the
available Free software runtimes, compilers, and libraries for each: is
Scheme primarily an "academic" language, whereas Common Lisp is where
you need to go to find mature library support for database interaction,
sockets, and X11 toolkits?
I'd really appreciate any comments you have about that. I've been
forcing myself to use and learn Emacs here even though I'm quite handy
in vi/vim. Without learning Emacs Lisp, I'm really no better off with it
than I was with vi: set a few trivial configuration options and master
keyboard shortcuts to take advantage of built-in functionality.
Thanks,
dircha
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