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by Eudoxia
Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:08 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: John McCarthy, inventor of Lisp, dies at 84
Replies: 1
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Re: John McCarthy, inventor of Lisp, dies at 84

Got this from LessWrong, he had a bunch of very interesting essays about technological progress: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/index.html

I haven't read all of them, but there are many and it looks like he left a wealth of insights that were left mostly ignored. Such a sad thing. :cry:
by Eudoxia
Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:08 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: What dialect of Lisp is suitable for a beginner?
Replies: 4
Views: 10831

Re: What dialect of Lisp is suitable for a beginner?

The main IDE for Lisp is emacs. If you don't want that, my suggestion would be to use Kate + copy-pasting code to the terminal or a Qt editor called CLedit . It's very unknown, and has a lot of missing features (For example, there is only a Save As function, no Save function that can be triggered wi...
by Eudoxia
Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:02 pm
Forum: Common Lisp
Topic: help w/ AllegroServ tutorial from Siebel Pract C Lisp book
Replies: 2
Views: 4316

Re: help w/ AllegroServ tutorial from Siebel Pract C Lisp book

I would suggest downloading the aserve package from Quicklisp's respositories. I don't know if it's AllegroServe or Portable AllegroServe (Possibly the latter because of what the poster above said), but it works just fine.

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(ql:quickload 'aserve)