Re: Amazon used lisp & C exclusively?

Robert Uhl <eadmund42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Actually, I've spent the last two days trying to get SLIME working on a
second machine. Same SLIME version, same SBCL version, same emacs
version and yet it just sits there hanging on the * prompt. Even tried
creating a new account with a clean .emacs and environment--no joy.
Right now a thousand dollars seems like a bargain...

I think it's pretty likely that no matter how much money you pay for a
Lisp implementation, whining about a problem somewhere in a middle of
a huge c.l.l flamewar won't magically fix it. Instead you'll need to
contact your vendor over some other channel. For example by sending an
email to their support address, giving a clear description of the
problem, telling the version numbers of the software that's involved,
etc.

So why not also extend that courtesy to software that you didn't pay
anything for?

(That said, I'm going to guess that you're using a CVS snapshot of
SBCL with a version number from 0.9.14.9 to 0.9.14.26, in which case
upgrading to CVS HEAD will probably fix the problem.)

--
Juho Snellman
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