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Lisp Setup Questions
I was just starting to look at Lisp, reading Practical Common lisp. I have emacs setup with slime. As it was suggested in this book.
I have also setup the fedora-lisp repository in yum. However a common reccomendation for a newbie looking at Lisp is "Lisp in a Box", however I cannot find much documentation or a site to download it.
I have found allegro free edition and though I have installed it it may take more tweaking before it works.
If you have set lisp up did you use "lisp in a box" if so where is the doenload and docs ? Or did you use allegro or find another option ?
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Lisp in a box downloads and docs are at common-lisp.net.
I used it when first looking at CL and it might be useful if you need to set up CL/emacs/slime in a hurry (nb you need to install a slime compatible CL separately) but the version of slime it comes with is too old. You need to get the latest slime as bugs get fixed fairly quickly, and if you ask questions about problems with it no one will help you until you're using the latest...If you use a recent SBCL for instance you need the latest stable slime from CVS (for the time being).