Re: Reasons to choose CLISP over other free implementations



Matthew D. Swank wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:59:14 -0800, Geoff Wozniak wrote:


I have other quibbles with CLisp. One of them is that with Slime, the
argument names that show up using slime-autodoc mode are nondescript
and not helpful. I often see "arg0", "arg1", etc. I use this a lot
and it's annoying when I forget the order of arguments to things like
NTH and ELT, for example.


Even when I deploy using clisp, I almost always use something else to
develop in slime: sbcl, openmcl, even allegro on occasion (kenny will
mortified).

Nonsense! Even if Allegro's pipe from Emacs to ACL is better than Slime (or so I am told, and why not, it's their Lisp and Franz are pros whereas the Slime yobbos are more like reality show programmers), Slime is the tool you know. Fluency probably matters a lot more than a feature here and a feature there.

Some wise soul once said it is harder for a good programmer to change editors than to change languages. Something like that.

kz0



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