[Ecls-list] Hello everyone

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll writes:

> Hola Francisco,
>
> I am really glad that you are considering the use of ECL. Regarding
> your precise question
>
>>        My question is: which development stack do you use in windows for ECL?
>> Is Emacs+Slime the best choice or should I try something else? Makefile and
>> company or Visual something for building/compiling/scripting/whatever?
>
> First of all, the most stable version of ECL in Windows is the one
> built with Visual Studio C++. It is best if you can avoid Mingw or
> Cygwin.
>
> That said, ECL itself does not integrate well with the GUI of Visual
> Studio and I am afraid it would be hard to code Common Lisp using
> Microsoft tools. In any case the development stack as you say will
> depend on how you want to use Common Lisp.
>
> - If it will be your main programming language, then Slime or a
> similar editor would be the best choice.
>
> - If it will be used as an embedded language, mainly for scripting,
> then you might want to stay with Visual Studio.

Even in the latter case, Slime might make a sense. Slime consists of an
Emacs client and a CL server part, and Francisco could run the server
embedded in his main application -- then use Emacs to connect to the
server, and work on the embedded side this way.

I.e. Slime can also be used as a "scripting environment".

  -T.