> I really liked Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel ( https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ ) however, ignore the environment setup: th

> I really liked Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel ( https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ ) however, ignore the environment setup: the recommendations it makes are no longer maintained, these days Portacle is the best way to get started. A bunch of us from Freenode IRC have formed Common Lisp Programming Challenge (CLPC) at https://github.com/spxy/clpc https://github.com/spxy/clpc in order to help beginners get started with Common Lisp (CL) while learning the language from Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. The outdated environment setup in the book can indeed be a genuine hurdle for a beginner. Portacle is a great way to get started. In the CLPC repository though, we are documenting the steps to set up Emacs, SLIME, etc. from scratch, so that a beginner to the CL ecosystem can try out and understand the traditional way of installing and setting up these tools. If anyone here comes across this comment and is already reading or about to start reading the book Practical Common Lisp, or is eager to learn Common Lisp, you are welcome to visit https://github.com/spxy/clpc https://github.com/spxy/clpc and join the Common Lisp Programming Challenge.