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Cai Gengyang.com in Lisp

1 points by CaiGengYang 11y ago

Ok, So I have decided to focus and master Lisp after reading Paul Graham's material. The first thing I want to do is to create a personal site like Paul Graham's www.paulgraham.com. Where do I start? I am currently using Lispworks Personal Edition on my MacBook OSX Yosemite Version 10.10.2. How and where do I start work on this project? If anyone can enlighten me, I would appreciate it very much. Also trying to get answers in comp.lang.lisp ...

detaro 11y ago
You seem to jump between ideas a lot, you have to get at least somewhere with something before following the next idea. HN isn't the best place to ask for this kind of advice, better find a community specialized in the environment you want to use and look there + ask specific questions on Stack Overflow. That said, you should try to find and use basic resources on your own, people are way more willing to help you with specific problems than with "I have this idea, what do I have to do?", like this or your post yesterday asking for step-by-step to build a specific python website. You likely won't get a good answer to tht, unless someone magically knows a tutorial that uses exactly that example. Follow a few tutorials or simple examples, then try adapt them for what you want to do (e.g. for the python-image-site thing, there are tons of Python website tutorials e.g. for blogs and such. Follow one of those, then modify it or try to build an image site among similar lines), ask specific questions if you get stuck. (e.g. for python, reddit has /r/learnpython).
- CaiGengYang 11y ago
  I got banned on Stack Overflow for asking what the moderators deemed to be "low-quality" questions. I plan to master Lisp first ... it seems to be the most powerful language. Just trying to find a way to create a personal site using Lisp ...
  - detaro 11y ago
    re Stackoverflow: yeah, that happens, but if you have better questions you can always create a new account. Just make sure to actually ask fitting questions! re lisp: a bit of an odd choice for first web development, but if you feel comfortable with it why not. re "build a site in lisp": Okay, what have you searched for and found out by now?
    - CaiGengYang 11y ago
      detaro, Just going through the exercises in this book by Paul Graham : http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf. --- There doesn't seem to be anything in there about web development for Lisp though ... Also saw this book on static web development by Adam Tornhill : http://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/lispweb.htm http://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/lispweb.htm --- do you think this will help ?
    - CaiGengYang 11y ago
      And I was given this piece of advice from a Lisper in comp.lang.lisp : server: Hunchentoot or alternatives simple web framework: restas, clack or alternatives would my Javascript be complex enough to require parenscript? any other useful libraries fo markup css and database connectivity

1 points by CaiGengYang 11y ago

detaro 11y ago

You seem to jump between ideas a lot, you have to get at least somewhere with something before following the next idea. HN isn't the best place to ask for this kind of advice, better find a community specialized in the environment you want to use and look there + ask specific questions on Stack Overflow. That said, you should try to find and use basic resources on your own, people are way more willing to help you with specific problems than with "I have this idea, what do I have to do?", like this or your post yesterday asking for step-by-step to build a specific python website. You likely won't get a good answer to tht, unless someone magically knows a tutorial that uses exactly that example. Follow a few tutorials or simple examples, then try adapt them for what you want to do (e.g. for the python-image-site thing, there are tons of Python website tutorials e.g. for blogs and such. Follow one of those, then modify it or try to build an image site among similar lines), ask specific questions if you get stuck. (e.g. for python, reddit has /r/learnpython).

CaiGengYang 11y ago
I got banned on Stack Overflow for asking what the moderators deemed to be "low-quality" questions. I plan to master Lisp first ... it seems to be the most powerful language. Just trying to find a way to create a personal site using Lisp ...
- detaro 11y ago
  re Stackoverflow: yeah, that happens, but if you have better questions you can always create a new account. Just make sure to actually ask fitting questions! re lisp: a bit of an odd choice for first web development, but if you feel comfortable with it why not. re "build a site in lisp": Okay, what have you searched for and found out by now?
  - CaiGengYang 11y ago
    detaro, Just going through the exercises in this book by Paul Graham : http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf. --- There doesn't seem to be anything in there about web development for Lisp though ... Also saw this book on static web development by Adam Tornhill : http://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/lispweb.htm http://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/lispweb.htm --- do you think this will help ?
  - CaiGengYang 11y ago
    And I was given this piece of advice from a Lisper in comp.lang.lisp : server: Hunchentoot or alternatives simple web framework: restas, clack or alternatives would my Javascript be complex enough to require parenscript? any other useful libraries fo markup css and database connectivity