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No, you are completely wrong about this. The fact that SBCL is lagging on some platforms is because you have to write a whole lot of things in assembler and C that the Sun people are giving to you for free. That is entirely my point. On one side, you need developers to port something. On the other ...

But other libraries worked quite fine (maybe because I used Gentoo Linux's package repository, in which lisp-overlay is quite well maintained). Yes, I have had much more luck using various Linux package managers than ASDF. ASDF is pretty bad. I second the recommendation of Gentoo, it's a good distr...

Maybe not many Lisp programmers care about threads, but I do, and so does anyone who writes a GUI or web app. Which is a pretty huge slice of programming nowadays, in my world anyways. When we have 32- or 64-core CPUs in a few years, are Lispers still not going to care? Who's doing the work to keep ...

Why doesn't someone do it then? It's not that these problems CAN'T be be solved in Common Lisp, it's that they haven't been and aren't being. I have to write programs today, I can't wait a decade while these things are fixed, assuming they ever will be. A fair response is "Hey buddy, why don't ...

Whether Lisps have threading on Windows right now is purely a function of their implementations and whether that's important to them. Remember that many of the Lisps out there are based on very old implementations that have literally been in existence for decades (CMUCL -> SBCL, KCL -> ECL, MCL -> ...

It's a question of Clojure + JVM, or Common Lisp + Windows/Linux/OS X/others + a C compiler. Either way you're tied to and limited by your platform. How many Lisps have threading on Windows right now? How many even work cross-platform at all? How many libraries do? Look at ASDF for a good example of...

That link about threads is interesting, because it's exactly the problem Clojure claims to (try to) solve. I'm not sure I've drunk the Clojure Kool-Aid yet and I don't have enough experience in concurrent programming to form a very well-informed opinion, but based on what I do know and what I've see...

I've played with Clojure a bit. It's very nice. I love how lists and vectors etc. all have a common "sequence" abstraction. I have vague plans to use Clojure to write a multi-threaded GUI/networking app. I'll have to see how that works out. I think (and hope) Clojure has a bright future. A...

I'm sure most of us agree that RubyQuiz is awesome. Rubyquiz is great because the problems are tiny enough to do in a day or so, but hard enough to make you think a bit. Importantly, the problems cover a wide range of topics: they aren't all math problems (like Project Euler , which is still fun if ...

If not for Practical Common Lisp I never would've bothered with the language. It's a great book on many levels.