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Common Lisp Implementations in 2023

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Re: Common Lisp Implementations in 2023

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Post by smcn »

account-5 wrote: post #14

I would like to learn Lisp but am easily confused with where to start. What implementation do I use? On a general level do I start with CL, schema, racket, etc (apologies I know this thread is about common lisp). It's all very confusing. I'm like this with most things, like I want to learn Forth too but have that same problem. I learned vanilla JavaScript because I didn't know where to start with the 1000+ frameworks…

Common Lisp, specifically SBCL. Most popular choice (outside of Clojure and Emacs Lisp?). That's the easy answer. You'll encounter more libraries and online answers/resources which will help any growing pains.

Quicklisp is used for package management and quickproject is a great starting point to get you writing lisp asap.

Practical Common Lisp is a great introduction to the language.

https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/

https://xach.com/lisp/quickproject/

Re: Common Lisp Implementations in 2023

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Post by galdor »

jackdaniel wrote: post #24

ECL license is LGPL-2.1-or-later (not LGPL2), the same applies to Clasp (which was forked from ECL). n.b isn't this thread infested with bots? 4 or 5 nicks created 4 days ago with incomplete messages..

Indeed, corrected. Thank you!

I'm not sure what is happening, there are multiple small posts which look like spam, with green nicknames.

Edit: green nicknames are from new accounts. On this page, all of them are spam. At some point it would make sense to just hide them all.

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