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LispWorks Common Lisp. I have always liked Common Lisp better. LispWorks costs $3400 and Racket is obviously free. I usually recommend Racket when someone, at
by mark_l_watson 7y ago
LispWorks Common Lisp. I have always liked Common Lisp better. LispWorks costs $3400 and Racket is obviously free.
I usually recommend Racket when someone, at least right now, wants to learn Lisp. Racket is an effective gateway drug to the Lisp world :-)
- behnamoh 7y agoI've always wondered what LispWorks offers that costs so much. Is it the libraries, better IDE, or something else? Looking at Racket's documentation, it seems pretty "complete" with regard to things it covers (for free).
- mark_l_watson 7y agoThe cross platform CAPI UI library is good, as are the bundled dev tools. The will give you an evaluation license to try it.
- pjmlp 7y agoLispWorks and Allegro are the survivors from the Lisp Machine days. They offer the full development experience as having your own Lisp Machine, with optimizing compilers, IDE, frameworks, debugging tools.