[ILUG] clisp v emacs lisp

[Sean O'Donnell]

Hi James,

I've just started teaching myself lisp. I'm using plain old clisp and no
special editor,
but I'm learning from Practical Common Lisp (most of the chapters are online
at
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/) and finding that using clisp instead of
the recommended environment
is not problem. The book recommends using slime , which seems to be some
sort of lisp friendly add on for
emacs. I've looked around for IDE's and I cant find any non-commercial ide
thats any good.

Finally , for a really quick fun introduction to common lisp try

http://www.lisperati.com/

Its an introduction to lisp comic book :)

It walks you through writing an old style text adventure game.

Good luck with lisp and if you need anyone to bounce questions off
(although the odds of me being able to answer are slim) fire away.

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
James McCarthy
Sent: 08 December 2004 16:24
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] clisp v emacs lisp


im going to be learning lisp pretty soon(after the 16th of december)
and i was wondering which is better, emacs lisp or common lisp.

or is there even any difference?
So if anyone who has experience with these dialects of lisp part with
a bit of knollege or experience.

by the way im going to to learning it in emacs anyway, if that makes
any difference.
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