Re: Common Lisp from a Unix perspective - barriers to using CL

Ian Jackson <ijackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

This is helpful of course but if you want to get people started
quickly, a whole book is not a good answer. How long a web page is a
Perl or Python `get you started' tutorial ?

could you point some of those tutorials? so we can have an idea of what
you consider to be good.

Oh, yes, and I read many of them. But they (a) fail to address the
difficulties that I had (and presumably anyone new to CL has), and
(b) there are huge numbers of them containing huge amounts of
irrelevant material. It's evident that nothing ever gets deleted
(which is one of the common diseases of wikis, unfortunately).

again, could you, please, point what difficulties you had and what you'd
expect to have in these tutorials? I'm not trying to be picky here (or
whatever), I'm just trying to understand what people think is missing so
we can a) direct then to something that already exists and solve it, of
b) create it.

For instance, what do you think of this introduction by Paul Graham?

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/acl2.txt

Pedro Kroger
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