Re: How Common Lisp sucks

Ron Garret wrote:

However, maybe this does raise a possibility for addressing some of
your original concerns, namely making CL as accessible as python, perl
or even (gasp) Java. Why not put together a CL specific Linux
distribution. It could be based on Debian (as Debian already has
really quite nice support for CL.

Not a bad idea.

Lisp in a box is a step in that direction, no?

See http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/lispbox/ and http://common-lisp.net/project/lispbox/

Pascal

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