[LispSea] starting point

Brandon J. Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Fri Jun 9 19:36:06 UTC 2006


Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Daniel Pezely wrote:
>
>>
>> Topics: While there is LispBox, which does a good job of getting you 
>> started, my first presentation will be to move beyond the learning 
>> mode.  Likewise, since installing a free common lisp system involves 
>> more than extracting a tar file or even knowing tweaky 'configure' 
>> options, the first session will probably be this: MacOSX + sbcl + 
>> Emacs + Slime with VirtualPC running FreeBSD (aka, fixing the 
>> reddit.com model).
>
> Fine to see.
>
> One of the problems of Common Lisp is "gee how do you try this out for 
> cheap on Windows?"  

I'm realizing that packaging and setup issues are even more problematic 
on Windows.  Cygwin aside, there isn't just some package repository to 
pull from.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every




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