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The whole argument is moot. Quicklisp exists now, and you can install anything with it, with one command.
by mahmud 14y ago
The whole argument is moot. Quicklisp exists now, and you can install anything with it, with one command.
- fogus 14y agoHaven't you realized by now that rants about Common Lisp are based on a weird amalgamated reality where Erik Naggum rants on Usenet, the standard still has unanswered questions and Lisp Machines caused the AI Winter?
- aerique 14y agoAnd for people who don't know what Quicklisp is: it is like "apt-get" for Common Lisp. (If you don't know what "apt-get" is you can ignore this thread.)
- prodigal_erik 14y agoBut unlike .deb it appears to be yet another way of smuggling code onto a box without visibility for the sysadmins or supporting dependencies on anything written in any other language.
- arnsholt 14y agoQuicklisp is still just a layer on top of ASDF. It's still there, you just don't have to deal with it as much.
- mahmud 14y agoASDF2 is a beautiful work of pragmatic engineering.