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Ask HN: what is the Lisp dialect that you recommend?
I have just ordered "ANSI common LISP", and I was wondering what should be the best LISP dialect for an amateur?
- icey 16y agoSBCL or CLISP should work well for you - what operating system do you use? (Also, http://landoflisp.com/ http://landoflisp.com/ might be a good way to get started with the language if you're still learning it. It's a far more enjoyable read as well.)
- gsivil 16y agoThanks. I am on Ubuntu 10.10. I am mostly interested to have fun, to see for my self if indeed LISP can change the way somebody thinks about programming languages, and eventually to see if I could use it for light numerical analysis and data visualization for research.
- icey 16y agoThey're both available via apt on Ubuntu, which is nice. A few years ago, most people seemed to lean towards SBCL, but I'm not sure if there's much difference between the two these days.