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No, I think such observations are valid. I mainly tried to add that even for me, a long time Lisp user, GNU Emacs / SLIME is not the primary tool. There are a f
by lispm 9y ago
No, I think such observations are valid. I mainly tried to add that even for me, a long time Lisp user, GNU Emacs / SLIME is not the primary tool. There are a few groups and a large and visible group is using SBCL + GNU Emacs + SLIME. But there are other groups.
- FractalLP 9y agoAh thanks! I recall you work for one of the commercial lisp vendors. I assume you use their IDE environment that is similar to emacs? How do you describe using it?
- lispm 9y agoI don't work for a vendor, but I use commercial and non-commercial Lisps with other editors. Typically they are simpler to use, better integrated into the platform, have less features (no games, no latex modes, no org mode, ...), have simpler key commands, are multi-threaded, are directly integrated into the running Common Lisp, don't implement all tools as editor buffers, ...
- FractalLP 9y agoThanks for the synopsis as I don't see a lot of information on the Lispworks and Allegro sites.
- lispm 8y agoThey have tryout versions. Editor User Guide of LispWorks: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/EDUG-M/html/eduser-m.htm http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/EDUG-M/html/edus... IDE User Guide for LispWorks: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/IDE-M/html/ide-m.htm http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/IDE-M/html/ide-m...