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A community for the Lisp family of programming languages.

Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

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History of Lisp - John McCarthy's history of 12 February 1979.
History of LISP at the Computer Histroy Museum

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What does your Lisp development environment look like? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's Friday, so I though it would be nice to have a social topic here. So here's a bunch of questions to stir up some discussions:

Which Lisp do you most often program in?
What does your Lisp development environment or IDE look like?
How did you get started with Lisp? Did you follow any particular articles to set up your environment or begin learning Lisp?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Common Lisp. I basically only use SBCL. It has good introspection, restarts, and source analysis for debugging. I mainly write theoretical research code that doesn't depend on calling into the JVM or C++ code. I do try to keep my code portable, so I will check with other implementations from time to time.
I use GNU Emacs and Sly (though I am thinking of trying Lem). I don't use any structural editing outside of Emacs' built in electric-pair-mode, show-paren-mode, and expand-region (not built in). I don't even use rainbow delimiters anymore. I get all my Common Lisp dependencies from GNU Guix. It is very pleasant to use and is rolling release. In addition to Guix, I use cl-guix-utils, which adds live loading of dependencies quicklisp style.
I first learned Racket then Emacs Lisp (both in college). Emacs lisp was more pleasant due to its interactive and self documenting nature. I wanted to write real programs; Common Lisp looked and felt more like Emacs Lisp (but better). I started learning Common Lisp primarily with the "Lisp for the web" series. I was hooked. I learned more mainly through reading the hyperspec, studying other people source code and reading articles. I didn't read any of the famous books until I recently read "Practical Common Lisp". I already knew pretty much everything it had to offer. I wish I had read it sooner.

GNU Guix: https://guix.gnu.org/

cl-guix-utils: https://git.sr.ht/~charje/cl-guix-utils

"Lisp for the web": https://adamtornhill.com/articles/lispweb.htm

"Practical Common Lisp": https://gigamonkeys.com/book/