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There are enough kind and intelligent people in the Lisp world who like to help others learn, and this problem is complained about so widely and loudly, that if
by daniel-cussen 19y ago
There are enough kind and intelligent people in the Lisp world who like to help others learn, and this problem is complained about so widely and loudly, that if a technical solution were possible I think we'd have it already.
A technical solution would be 1) click to download, 2) unzip, and 3) drag to applications folder. On top of that, the lisp that does this should be easier to find, and lisps that are more difficult to deal with should be harder to find, lest a noob tries to install them.
- gruseom 19y agoYou seem to have missed my point. I'm not saying a technical solution is hard to describe. I'm saying it's hard to implement - perhaps much harder than it seems. You'd have to do it for all Lisps on all OS's. As your own post indicates rather clearly, getting it to work with one Lisp on one OS isn't enough. As for how to ensure that one thing is harder to find on the internet than another, I suppose we can leave that as an exercise to the reader.