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Thoughts on ecl & clisp (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Ok_Specific_7749@alien.top to c/lisp

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Personaly i found abcl a bad experience.
Thoughts on ecl & clisp ?

sbcl works nice & fine. But i't's the only lisp implementation i know.
There are good books on racket-scheme & chez-cheme.
The only book i know for lisp is, "Common lisp , a gentle introduction to symbolic computing".

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[–] rpiirp@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only book i know for lisp is

My pet peeve: People never looking at the sidebar of this very subreddit.

[–] arthurno1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

People never looking at the sidebar of this very subreddit.

Welcome to Reddit :-). That is the common theme of all subreddits I am afraid.

[–] Ok_Specific_7749@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aah , i see to the right. But aren't the books "OLD ?"

[–] aartaka@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

CL is, like, fourty? years old now. These books describe the standardized language, so most of their gotchas apply to any conforming implementation. So yes, the books are "OLD", and yes, they are "GOOD".

[–] KaranasToll@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Isn't common lisp old?