After hearing of the 'light switch' effect and nirvana that LISP brings about, and reading the following article:
I've decided to start learning LISP during Christmas break. I had about a 3-week crash course on it during my Computer Programming Concepts class, but I didn't really think much more of it other than 'okay that was cool, but I'll never use this again.'
The Search for An Interpreter/IDE
I started by going through a couple of the available LISP interpreters: GNU CLISP, Ufasoft LISP, and LispWorks.
I'd used LispWorks before but decided that I ought to try some other IDE to get a sense for what's out there.
After trying to install Ufasoft, I found that a Microsoft Visual Studio component needed to be installed first. Cancel -- I wanted something that could work on both my MacBook and Windows machines. GNU CLISP installed fine, but this gave a command-line only interface and a quick look through things did not uncover any extensive help information.
So back to LispWorks. Here we go!
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