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Best Common Lisp IDE?

As I am starting to learn Common Lisp, it would be great to do so using an easy to use environment/IDE. What would you recoomend?
My OS is primarily Windows, but would also consider Linux options.

thanks,

By ydewit at 2005-03-20 17:15 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 47932 reads

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Resources

You might want to get a newsreader (or go to google) and talk to comp.lang.lisp.

Otherwise there are resources here:
http://www.cliki.net/index
and an emacs advertisement here:
http://www.david-steuber.com/Lisp/Development/

If you hate Emacs, there's the free Personal Edition of Lispworks, which isn't too bad.

By Ulrich Hobelmann at Sun, 2005-03-20 18:17 | login or register to post comments

More resources

Some summaries are the Introduction to CL development environments by Bill Clementson and the blunt #lisp advice. Peter Seibel is also making a new and improved Lisp in a Box distribution to coincide with the release of his book Practical Common Lisp in a couple of weeks. I don't know of much in the way of online comparisons between the commercial environments and I haven't seriously used them myself.

There aren't all that many environments so you should be able to follow your nose a bit.

Note that SLIME works better with some Lisps than others: best with CMUCL, a bit boring with CLISP and ABCL, quite good with the rest in my experience.

By Luke Gorrie at Mon, 2005-03-21 04:04 | login or register to post comments

SLIME

SLIME from CVS also works nicely with the current SBCL. I like that because SBCL runs on OpenBSD, and so makes an excellent server platform for running Araneida, CLSQL, UnCommon Web...

By Paul Snively at Mon, 2005-03-21 18:40 | login or register to post comments

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Nothing to see here, please move on...

By Charles A Stewart at Tue, 2005-03-22 10:28 | login or register to post comments