I'm going to learn lisp...

But does dialect matter? I went newb-mode and got the lispbox CLISP version, and it seems pretty normal to me, but does dialect/implementation really matter? Lispbox is only available for Windows with Allegro or CLISP, but does it matter that much?What's /prog/'s favorite implementation?

you're a fucking retard, shut the fuck up and get the fuck out, we've already discussed this you piece of shit

I use SBCL, probably one of the fastest and it's stable, works well on both *nix and win*(even if it's not considered stable, I've never had problems with it).
CLisp is also a good choice for those times when you need more debugging data.
Clozure CL is also worth a try, but I haven't found it as stable.
I haven't played much with ACL, but I hear it's good. LispWorks is also nice and has a decent stepper, for those rare situations.

tl;dr: Get SBCL+Emacs+SLIME+Paredit and enjoy.

win*

What?

plt scheme

>>3
SAGE FAIL

>>5
U MENA HASKAL

>>7
subtle troll

>>7
stop it!

>>9
ツンツン〜

>>9
Can I help you?

>>7
And before I forget: Fuck you.

>>4
Win32 such as WinNT, and other Windows OSes, but you already knew that.

>>11
Yes. Stop impersonating me.

>>1
You don't seem to be talking about dialects, but rather about implementations. And for a beginner, the implementation doesn't matter much.

>>9-14
UMH memesmith is now a meme.

>>16
Failed attempt at granting ⁶⁶UMH MEMESMITH⁹⁹ meme status!

>>17
⁶⁶UMH MEMESMITH⁹⁹

``UMH MEMESMITH''

FTFY

>>18
Faggot quotes are not, and never will be, acceptable.
Please stop!

>>19
:(

>>16
I'm not a fucking meme and I think I will post under a different name from now on just because of you, asshole.

>>21
gtfo

OP here. Is there some reason that I can't get emacs, slime, and SBCL to cooperate, or am I just a retard?

Yes.

>>23
Elaborate please?
I've tried SBCL,CCL,CLisp,LispWorks and some others, and they cooperate fine with Emacs+SLIME, not only that, but it's not hard to switch between them, and I've gotten it working both on Linux and Windows. So, OP, explain what your exact problem is!

Nevermind, got it. Entered lisp-mode and now it's fine, I get the SLIME dropdown menu, and lisp syntax is colored. All is well.

Nevermind, don't have it. Slime won't give me a prompt. I followed a tutorial to the letter, but when I do M-x lisp-mode, I get no prompt. M-x slime says [no matches]. I can use CLISP if there's really not that much difference, but I'd prefer not to use a hybrid, if not just for the learning of the pure lisp.

>>26
If you want an even more pleasant interface, try structured editing:
Install paredit after you've read the SLIME documentation and feel comfortable with it. Maybe also bind your () keys to [], it will make editing much faster, also get that symbol completion working, so you can type, for example m-v-b and it would expand to multiple-variable-bind. There's an excellent guide about this on CLiki.

>>27
What is the contents of your .emacs? Does emacs successfully load SLIME?

There's no harm in just using CLISP, but I think that if you took some time to do the setup yourself, you'll end up having a much more comfortable experience in the end.

>>29
Ok, so what I did was fucked with my 'inferior-lisp-program' entry, and did a copy of the SBCL directory to one without spaces, and now M-x slime works, but it asks for 1.0.13, not 1.0.29, so I'm currently installing SBCL 1.0.13 to see if this remedies the problem.

>>29
I have been editing my init.el file, and that's how I'm locating my implementation, which is:


 (add-to-list 'load-path "C:\\slime")

  (require 'slime)

  (slime-setup)

 (setq inferior-lisp-program "C:\\sbcl\\sbcl.exe -I")

GOT IT!
Wow I'm fucking stupid. I have no idea what the fuck I did, but I removed all SBCL installs from my comp, reinstalled 1.0.13, re-pathed it in init.el, M-x lisp-mode and M-x slime, it compiled, and I have a CL-user>!

>>32
Get SLIME for CVS. 1.0.13 is pretty old. The latest SBCL on the site is ~1.0.29-1.0.30, and it works well, even 1.0.31(beta) works.

Oh, and you should have something like this in your .emacs for an even better experience:

(setq slime-lisp-implementations
           '((sbcl ("sbcl") :coding-system utf-8-unix)
             (ccl ("path/to/wx86cl.exe")))) ; include other implementations here

(add-to-list 'load-path "path/to/site-lisp/slime/")
(require 'slime)
;(require 'slime-autoloads)
;(slime-setup)

(slime-setup '(slime-repl inferior-slime slime-c-p-c slime-fuzzy slime-autodoc slime-asdf slime-banner slime-editing-commands slime-presentations slime-presentation-streams slime-xref-browser slime-scratch slime-references slime-mdot-fu slime-package-fu slime-fontifying-fu))
; or just use the one in all slime-fancy
;(slime-setup '(slime-fancy))
(require 'slime-highlight-edits)

There's also a bunch of other interesting modifications you can perform to greatly enhance your lisp editing/debugging experience, but just read the SLIME documentation for that.

fuck, forgot my code tags...

>>23-34
and people wonder why emacs isn't very popular

>>35
I don't wonder. But then, I use vim.

>>36
But how will I do M-x artist-mode in vim?

>>35
Because people can't follow simple instructions?

drscheme