[Gardeners] Ping!

[Peter Seibel]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Jennifer Rodriguez-Mueller
<almostlikethat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Based on my initial surveys I'm thinking that the
>  right thing to do is:
>  1. Work through Practical Common Lisp - http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

Sounds good to me. ;-)

>  2. While using Steel Bank Common Lisp -
>  http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/platform-table.html

A reasonable choice. Others are also reasonable.

>  3. With Lisp in a Box as my IDE - http://common-lisp.net/project/lispbox/

Well, that project, as you noted is pretty dead. You might want to
take a look at

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/lispbox/

It's similarly dead but died more recently than the ohter. And very
occasionally comes back from the dead to get updated with new Lisps.
But it is just a convenient packaging of Emacs + SLIME + a Lisp. It's
not all that terribly hard to put the pieces together yourself if
you're willing to learn a bit about Emacs which you'll almost
certainly want to do anyway if you're going to actually be a Lisp
programmer.

For discussion comp.lang.lisp is generally active though often
annoying in various ways. #lisp is also generally active and
occasionally annoying in other ways. But as long as you're actually
interested in learning Lisp people will be pretty friendly and
helpful.

-Peter

-- 
Peter Seibel
http://www.codersatwork.com/
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/