Aled Gest dixit (2009-11-13, 21:10): > > If you would care for a pleasant > > (really) weekend with Lisp, try installing SBCL (a popular Common Lisp > > implementation) on your OS and have a look at Peter Seibel's great > > introductory (and more) book on Common Lisp: > > > > http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ > > I installed clisp on my BSD box the day before, don't know how that > compares to SBCL, but I'll give that guide a go, thanks for the heads > up!
SBCL seems to be the most actively developed and best supported implementation on the Linux platform, not sure about BSD. Clisp is possibly the most portable. A pretty up to date comparison is available here: http://common-lisp.net/~dlw/LispSurvey.html Best, -- [a]