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Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?

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Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?

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Post by gibsonf1 »

I've been using the Lispworks IDE for the last few years with medium to low satisfaction. Our production server is running SBCL on Ubuntu (which runs considerably faster that LW) and my cofounder is working with Slime. He swears by Slime and I'll be making the switch soon. We are also moving from SVN to GIT.

Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?

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Post by Tichy »

gibsonf1 wrote: post #2

I've been using the Lispworks IDE for the last few years with medium to low satisfaction. Our production server is running SBCL on Ubuntu (which runs considerably faster that LW) and my cofounder is working with Slime. He swears by Slime and I'll be making the switch soon. We are also moving from SVN to GIT.

Thanks for the info! I was more tending towards Scheme than Common LISP, does that make a difference?

Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?

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Post by yrashk »

gibsonf1 wrote: post #2

I've been using the Lispworks IDE for the last few years with medium to low satisfaction. Our production server is running SBCL on Ubuntu (which runs considerably faster that LW) and my cofounder is working with Slime. He swears by Slime and I'll be making the switch soon. We are also moving from SVN to GIT.

+1 for both slime and git

Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?

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Post by apgwoz »

Tichy wrote: post #3
gibsonf1 wrote: post #2

I've been using the Lispworks IDE for the last few years with medium to low satisfaction. Our production server is running SBCL on Ubuntu (which runs considerably faster that LW) and my cofounder is working with Slime. He swears by Slime and I'll be making the switch soon. We are also moving from SVN to GIT.

Thanks for the info! I was more tending towards Scheme than Common LISP, does that make a difference?

Slime doesn't exist for scheme. You can use Slime48 for Scheme48 version 1.3, but I don't know of any other ports for Scheme.

Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?

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Post by apgwoz »

Tichy wrote: post #3
gibsonf1 wrote: post #2

I've been using the Lispworks IDE for the last few years with medium to low satisfaction. Our production server is running SBCL on Ubuntu (which runs considerably faster that LW) and my cofounder is working with Slime. He swears by Slime and I'll be making the switch soon. We are also moving from SVN to GIT.

Thanks for the info! I was more tending towards Scheme than Common LISP, does that make a difference?

If you're using MIT Scheme, you might try Edwin?

Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?

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Post by corentin »

Tichy wrote: post #3
gibsonf1 wrote: post #2

I've been using the Lispworks IDE for the last few years with medium to low satisfaction. Our production server is running SBCL on Ubuntu (which runs considerably faster that LW) and my cofounder is working with Slime. He swears by Slime and I'll be making the switch soon. We are also moving from SVN to GIT.

Thanks for the info! I was more tending towards Scheme than Common LISP, does that make a difference?

The best Scheme IDE probably is DrScheme (plt-scheme.org)

Re: Ask YC: which editor to use for LISP programming?

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Post by gibsonf1 »

gibsonf1 wrote: post #2

I've been using the Lispworks IDE for the last few years with medium to low satisfaction. Our production server is running SBCL on Ubuntu (which runs considerably faster that LW) and my cofounder is working with Slime. He swears by Slime and I'll be making the switch soon. We are also moving from SVN to GIT.

Performance Note: Our code is running at least 10x faster on Ubuntu with SBCL over Lispworks on Windows
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