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gibsonf1 on Jan 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lisp IDEs (where for art thou?)

I'm not sure why such negativity toward Emacs? Emacs slime is amazing for lisp (and javaScript mode in emacs with auto formatting is also really good). It's true that emacs has more features and commands than other editing options, but you can be really productive in a powerful way with a smaller subset which is not hard to learn in a very short time. And why not use the best open source lisp out there, SBCL?

amouat on Jan 5, 2011 [–]

I'm happy to use SBCL actually, it's just a bit easier to use CLISP as the book examples are for CLISP. I've already figured out how to run external programs from SBCL (so that I could run dot which is used in Land of Lisp).

However, there's no reason CUSP should be tied to SBCL.

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