Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux
* 2011-12-25T12:46:07-08:00 * David Christensen wrote:
> I'm looking for a language/ system that is general-purpose in scope
> and supports historical through recent paradigms: procedural,
> structured, modular, and OO.
> The applications I want to build include web content management
> systems and web portals.
> Other wish-list features include FOSS, rigorous language/ library
> design and documentation, a comprehensive and easily extended library,
> support for automated testing, robust interoperability with OS, local
> resources, and remote services, and deep integration with the FOSS
> ecosystem. Built-in mini-languages for regular expressions,
> documentation, formatting/ templating, SQL, etc., are a conundrum;
> libraries would suit me fine.
> Agreed. (The language/ system I'm seeking should be capable of
> implementing application-specific languages.)
That's Common Lisp. I think SBCL is the most popular free-software
implementation for the language. Emacs+Slime is the most popular
development environment.
Usenet group comp.lang.lisp is a good place for discussing Common Lisp.
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