Re: getting started with LISP

2004-06-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Brendan Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Randall Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd like to learn LISP. Can someone tell me how to get it >> installed / get started on Debian? What packages do I install, etc? > > Step 1: get Emacs -- (a) it runs on a dialect of Lisp, so in > customis

Re: getting started with LISP

2004-06-17 Thread Brendan Halpin
Randall Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to learn LISP. Can someone tell me how to get it > installed / get started on Debian? What packages do I install, etc? Step 1: get Emacs -- (a) it runs on a dialect of Lisp, so in customising it you will learn a good deal, and (b) it offers g

Re: getting started with LISP

2004-06-16 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:45:29 -0500, dircha wrote: > Is Scheme a proper subset of Common Lisp? No. Scheme is a LISP "dialect" which attempts to remove LISPs ugliness and restore its original, functional purity. > What do you make of the available Free software runtimes, compilers, and > librarie

Re: getting started with LISP

2004-06-16 Thread dircha
Phillip Garland wrote: "LISP" is a family of languages. There are three main existing LISP dialects: Common Lisp, Scheme, and Emacs Lisp. I use Common Lisp the most. If you want to learn Oommon Lisp I'd recommend installing the sbcl package, which is a Common Lisp compiler, and getting SLIME, a

Re: getting started with LISP

2004-06-16 Thread Rene 'RvB' van Bevern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Somehow my last post on this thread got lost. :/ Aaron Maxwell wrote: > The clisp-doc package puts its docs in /usr/share/doc/clisp/doc. It > includes a general LISP tutorial, LISP-tutorial.txt.gz, in that > directory. Additional to these pac

Re: getting started with LISP

2004-06-16 Thread Phillip Garland
"LISP" is a family of languages. There are three main existing LISP dialects: Common Lisp, Scheme, and Emacs Lisp. I use Common Lisp the most. If you want to learn Oommon Lisp I'd recommend installing the sbcl package, which is a Common Lisp compiler, and getting SLIME, a Lisp IDE for Emacs (http:

Re: getting started with LISP

2004-06-16 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi. CLISP is a good, complete implementation, and probably the best choice for debian if you are just getting started. aptitude install clisp clisp-doc The clisp-doc package puts its docs in /usr/share/doc/clisp/doc. It includes a general LISP tutorial, LISP-tutorial.txt.gz, in that direct

Re: getting started with LISP

2004-06-16 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:40:17 +0200, Randall Smith escreveu: > I'd like to learn LISP. Try either going thru the emacs-lisp-intro tutorial, or by _The Little Schemer_ and install one of the scheme packages. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 5685 2219 Av Sgto G