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From: Rupert Swarbrick on 9 Mar 2010 06:43 Teemu Likonen <tlikonen(a)iki.fi> writes: > * 2010-03-09 11:25 (+0100), Petter Gustad wrote: >> Do you have any particular reason why you want to use CLISP and not >> SBCL if you're on Linux? If not I would suggest using SBCL. .... > Maybe I'll switch to SBCL but I'm pretty sure that some other areas suck > in SBCL. Maybe some other libraries won't work. Hmm, maybe. But sbcl is probably the most popular free lisp implementation going. It's also very actively developed. Other than a (in my opinion) slightly over-zealous interpretation of defconstant, I've not found any wrinkles in several years using it. Rupert
From: Petter Gustad on 9 Mar 2010 06:55 Teemu Likonen <tlikonen(a)iki.fi> writes: > with #!/usr/bin/clisp (out-of-the-box) and there is this nice readline > support automatically, even with (read-line *query-io*). SBCL does not have default readline support, but if you're a Emacs user you will probably operate SBCL from SLIME anyway, where you have readline and completion features in the REPL buffer. Petter -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
From: Teemu Likonen on 9 Mar 2010 07:34 * 2010-03-09 12:55 (+0100), Petter Gustad wrote: > SBCL does not have default readline support, but if you're a Emacs > user you will probably operate SBCL from SLIME anyway, where you have > readline and completion features in the REPL buffer. I do use Emacs and SLIME but, in CLISP, readline's command-line editing is available in program's prompts too. I think that's very important.
From: Teemu Likonen on 9 Mar 2010 08:44 * 2010-03-09 11:51 (UTC), Tamas K. Papp wrote: > Note that SBCL can also run scripts Good. Unfortunately the "--script" option is not available in SBCL version 1.0.18 which is packaged for Debian 5.0. But I'll write a simple launcher script. > If you readline support, chances are that you are making your life > more difficult than it should be (hint: use SLIME), but rlwrap will > give it to you in SBCL. I use SLIME but I'd also like my simple program's have a nice line editing. I'm not fan of those ^[[D^[[C^[[C^[[A^[[D codes in my terminal when I use arrow keys in programs' prompts. > Anyway, trying out different implementations is not that big of a deal > in CL, so I don't really see why you didn't just try instead of > complaining before you do. Well, I'm a beginner and I think it's an annoyance. None of my simple programs worked out-of-the-box with SBCL. But maybe I could think of it as a learning experience...
From: Erik Winkels on 9 Mar 2010 09:03
On 2010-03-09, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen(a)iki.fi> wrote: > > Good. Unfortunately the "--script" option is not available in SBCL > version 1.0.18 which is packaged for Debian 5.0. But I'll write a simple > launcher script. Grab an updated SBCL from Debian testing or unstable. It doesn't have many dependencies. > Well, I'm a beginner and I think it's an annoyance. None of my simple > programs worked out-of-the-box with SBCL. But maybe I could think of it > as a learning experience... Definitely :-) Once you get up to speed in CL it should be pretty painless moving your code between major implementations. |