Re: Some advice for a lisp newb

From: Bjørn Nordbø (bn_at_telenor.net)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:26:29 +0100

Alan Crowe <alan@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>
> My vote goes for an alternative - that programmers from a C
> background are used to the edit-compile-run cycle being
> relatively slow, and so adopt a learning style based
> everything being explained in the book, to avoid wasting
> time having to try stuff out. But the Read-Eval-Print-Loop
> is a wonderful learning environment. It lets you try out
> fragments of programs. In Lisp, the Hello World program is
> 13 characters
>
> "Hello World"

That's one thing I remember from my first attempt at learning Lisp:
When does he get to the "Hello world"-example! :-)

I found this quite useful howto long time ago; unfortunately is is
out of date:

http://ww.telent.net/lisp/howto.html

An introduction covering how to work with the REPL, SLIME/ILISP,
ASDF, the Hyperspec etc. wold probably be useful. 

-- 
We tend to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method
it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion,
inefficiency and demoralisation.    -- Gaius Petronius, 60 AD

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