Re: advice for a Lisp newbie



On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:29:01 -0700, Rajarshi wrote:

Hi, I've been reading about Lisp on and off and have been playing around
with Emacs Lisp. But I'd like to start learning it more generally so
that it'd be applicable outside of Emacs.

I've seen that SBCL is a popular version of CL and integrates with Emacs
(in terms of an IDE) - would this be a good way to start? I'm running OS
X and doing sudo apt-get install sbcl doesn't seem to find anything. Are
there prepackaged versions of SBCL available anywhere?

Pointers would be appreciated,

Rajarshi

try:
http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/platform-table.html

i don't bother using the OS specific methods of installing lisp
software .. i've found it much easier to deal with and maintain lisp
software "manually" in my home folder

here is how i get up and running with the very basics:
http://common-lisp.net/~lnostdal/writings/sbcl.html

...not sure if it is the "best way" or anything though .. or if it will
work for you (only tried it on linux)

--
Lars Rune Nøstdal
http://nostdal.org/
.



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