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A Video Tutorial of SLIME

Posted by timothy on from the no-really-that's-the-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ok, maybe I exaggerated a bit with the subject; however, you can check it out for yourself and decide. Marco Baringer has published a video (.mov available for the bittorent impaired) showing off the Common Lisp IDE SLIME. It's a long movie (almost an hour) and provides an in-depth description of many of SLIMES's features which just aren't available (or even possible) in 'modern' IDEs/languages."

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  1. Re:Lisp is D.O.A. by csrhodes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But compared to a language like Ruby or Python, Lisp is an anachronism. No standardization. No standard Unicode, threads. No XML or RSS libs, no web server, no web framework, no GUI tools, just a bunch of incompatible implementations.


    This is a very common wish, but there's a fallacy in the first sentence. The implied comparison is between language implementations (Ruby, Python) and a language specification (Common Lisp, Scheme) or a metalanguage idealisation (Lisp). There are plenty of implementations of Lisp and Scheme which have available for them all of the elements on the wishlist: but they are not standard across all implementations of a specification, or all instantiations of the metalanguage.

    There is indeed a need for better distribution integration for the various Free lisps out there (of which there are many) for the newcomers not to feel so intimidated by the need to assemble their systems themselves: but the inherently misleading comparison between specification and implementation should not frame the discussion, because those who need the bits and pieces can assemble them.