Very newbie question. Which free Common Lisp to start with?

[Donald Chen]

Hi, there.

Could you point out which free common lisp to start with?
( in terms of teaching myself to think in lisp )

I use emacs on a daily bases, do you think emacs-lisp is a common-lisp
compatable one, and is a good start point?

Any URL you recommand to download the one you recommand?

Thanks a lot,

Donald

[Dr. Edmund Weitz]

dxc...@hotmail.com (Donald Chen) writes:

> Hi, there.
>
> Could you point out which free common lisp to start with? ( in
> terms of teaching myself to think in lisp )

<http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~csr21/lispfaq.html#AEN58>

(Note that all the commercial vendors have free trial versions
available which include very good environments for learning the
language.)

> I use emacs on a daily bases, do you think emacs-lisp is a
> common-lisp compatable one, and is a good start point?

Emacs Lisp is _not_ Common Lisp, there are major differences. You
should use one of the implementations listed above.

HTH,
Edi.

--

Dr. Edmund Weitz
Hamburg
Germany

The Common Lisp Cookbook
<http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/>

[Marco Antoniotti]

dxc...@hotmail.com (Donald Chen) writes:

> Hi, there.
>
> Could you point out which free common lisp to start with?
> ( in terms of teaching myself to think in lisp )
>
> I use emacs on a daily bases, do you think emacs-lisp is a common-lisp
> compatable one, and is a good start point?

Emacs Lisp gets "close" to a Common Lisp if you stick

(require 'cl)

in your .emacs files.

> Any URL you recommand to download the one you recommand?

Look at http://www.alu.org and choose from there.

Cheers

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