3 ms·

I note that the poster described a Lisp and not specifically Common Lisp. Clojure at least has plenty of batteries available via its Java interoperability. Th

I note that the poster described a Lisp and not specifically Common Lisp. Clojure at least has plenty of batteries available via its Java interoperability. The biggest thing holding Clojure back at the moment appear to be installation, building other people's projects, and IDE setup. I don't know if Clojure is a helpful suggestion to the OP but it is certainly a more appealing way for me to get into Lisp than Common Lisp was. Edit: I have just recently completed the install/build/IDE trifecta myself thanks to ELPA and leiningen but it certainly wasn't a one-day process. One of my biggest problems was reading out of date tutorials rather than the latest and greatest. It can be hard for a newcomer to see a HOWTO blog post from mid 2009 and decide whether or not to try it out.

pchristensen 17y ago
I can do an SBCL/emacs/SLIME setup in 15 minutes or so, but I've done it a bunch of times. Someone following my guides can do it in ~1 hour. I'd love to try out clojure, but I want to type something like 'sudo apt-get install clojure-sandbox'.
- regularfry 17y ago
  Leiningen actually isn't that far from being exactly that. It's not a one-liner, but setting up a scratch project that'll give you a repl is very straightforward. Setting up swank is only slightly less simple because you've got to edit a config file. It can be difficult to figure out the right incantation for that because the docs are pretty nonexistent, but google is helpful enough there.
- dpritchett 17y ago
  ClojureBox provides what you ask for, but it's windows-only. To get up and running in Ubuntu you'd have to do the following: sudo apt-get purge openjdk* sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk git-core wget http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/stable/bin/lein lein self-install git clone git://github.com/relevance/labrepl.git cd labrepl lein deps script/repl elinks http://localhost:8080 Edit: To get emacs you'd want to use ELPA to install swank-clojure. The apt commands were lifted from Lau Jensen's video tutorial: http://www.vimeo.com/8398020 http://www.vimeo.com/8398020

pchristensen 17y ago

I can do an SBCL/emacs/SLIME setup in 15 minutes or so, but I've done it a bunch of times. Someone following my guides can do it in ~1 hour. I'd love to try out clojure, but I want to type something like 'sudo apt-get install clojure-sandbox'.

regularfry 17y ago
Leiningen actually isn't that far from being exactly that. It's not a one-liner, but setting up a scratch project that'll give you a repl is very straightforward. Setting up swank is only slightly less simple because you've got to edit a config file. It can be difficult to figure out the right incantation for that because the docs are pretty nonexistent, but google is helpful enough there.
dpritchett 17y ago
ClojureBox provides what you ask for, but it's windows-only. To get up and running in Ubuntu you'd have to do the following: sudo apt-get purge openjdk* sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk git-core wget http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/stable/bin/lein lein self-install git clone git://github.com/relevance/labrepl.git cd labrepl lein deps script/repl elinks http://localhost:8080 Edit: To get emacs you'd want to use ELPA to install swank-clojure. The apt commands were lifted from Lau Jensen's video tutorial: http://www.vimeo.com/8398020 http://www.vimeo.com/8398020