It's funny how when you go down a new path, you suddenly see evidence that you're not alone. Here's some evidence (from the truly marvelous xkcd.com) that I can't be the only one that decided to spend more time with Lisp lately:
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I found the latter especially amusing given that my official job title is "Jedi Master". Of course, given how bad the most recent movies were, I've been thinking of changing it to "Wizard". :)
By the way, if you're interested in Lisp, be sure to read the absolutely excellent book "Practical Common Lisp". Some of my readers pointed it out to me, so I've been reading it. Highly recommended, especially as it is available online in its entirety for free.
I was wondering if you have found a good IDE to play with Lisp? I've decided on Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) for no other reason than I have no idea what I'm doing. Any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteYep. Get emacs and set up SLIME. It's a pretty good environment, although frankly on Windows SLIME isn't awesome. If you have a Linux environment you can play around in, things tend to be a bit more stable over there. I run a Ubuntu image in a VMWare Server instance I have on one of my Windows machines. Using XMing and Putty, I can connect and run emacs on the Linux box but all the windows show up on my Windows machine.
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