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Started by krum Sep 27, 2005 at 9:13 AM 5 replies 850+ views

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Sep 27, 2005 at 9:13 AM

Is this language dead? I can't find any good references, good tutorials, or really any practical information on it as most of the links that you find on the Internet are dead. I managed to grab the GNU LISP compiler, but there's virtually no documentation on this thing especially regarding interfacing to C (or even getting it to link at all!). What's up? Anybody know?

Monder

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Monder

Sep 27, 2005 at 9:20 AM

It's not dead at all, indeed the TIOBE programming community index lists it as the 14th most popular language. I'd recomend reading Practical Common Lisp (which is available free on-line as well as in a printed book) for a nice introduction to LISP.

flangazor

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flangazor

Sep 27, 2005 at 9:45 AM

Lisp is the fourth most used language in Debian. GNU Common Lisp is mostly defunct, though I believe there are efforts underway to ressurect it. You may like to try CLISP, CMUCL, SBCL, or Corman Lisp depending on your platform.

CoffeeMug

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CoffeeMug

Sep 27, 2005 at 1:53 PM

It's that time again? [smile]

Flatlander

Sep 28, 2005 at 7:18 AM

For reference:
http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/FrontMatter/index.html

Implentations:
http://clisp.cons.org/
http://www.cons.org/cmucl/ (*nix only)
http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/ (*nix only)
http://www.lispworks.com/ (commercial, trial versions available)
http://www.franz.com/ (commercial, trial versions available)
http://ecls.sourceforge.net/
http://www.cormanlisp.com/ (windows only)

Misc:
http://planet.lisp.org/
http://www.cliki.net/
http://common-lisp.net/

Oh, and it's not spelled LISP any more. It's Lisp, as in "Lisp is not dead, it just smells funny."

Trap

Sep 28, 2005 at 8:32 AM

Quote:
Original post by krum
especially regarding interfacing to C

C FFI is the most current way to do it.

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