> [emacs & slime] I was not aware you have experience with both, I just tried to point out what most people use today. I did not intend to start yet another ed

> [emacs & slime] I was not aware you have experience with both, I just tried to point out what most people use today. I did not intend to start yet another editor war, even clay tablets are fine with me :). > If there are other CL's with ABCL's level of maturity on the JVM My point is that the (virtual) machine does not matter at all. ABCL is just another CL and it should not be relevant except for when you are specifically looking into interfacing java libraries (for which one does not need a book, just a few paragraphs of docs). > Beyond that, I imagine that many programming projects target specific implementations for various, pragmatic reasons. Only to the point that you sometimes have to implement things for your current CL implementation (i.e. stuff not defined in the standard and for which no interop. libs exist - a pretty rare thing).