[pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

[Martin Cracauer]

Sam Steingold wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 04:16:10PM -0500: 
> 
> I think Franz, Lispworks, ITA et al are vital parts of the "lisp community".
> I think the fact that none of them is paying anyone to maintain SLIME,
> ALU wiki, common-lisp.net &c
> is indicative of understandable but deplorable corporate myopia
> ("public goods cannot be produced by private businesses").

>From my perspective SLIME just doesn't work well enough that I would
have put some steam behind it.

Of course ilisp, which did work better for me, is now way too behind
the times to be rescued.  So I guess I'm stuck unless I want to go
with Hemlock?

Franz and Lispworks all have their own Emacs and CL editor,
respectively.  That might have to do with it :-)

Martin
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