{"id":6510,"date":"2017-08-21T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2017-08-21T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T18:11:49","slug":"setting-up-a-lisp-development-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6510","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up a Lisp Development Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> For a language as old as Lisp, there are a surprising number of queries asking how to set up a Lisp environment. If you&rsquo;re a Lisper, your answer to this is probably Emacs\/Slime\/Quicklisp and one of the Lisp systems such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbcl.org\/\">SBCL<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMV8p6Lb-bd6UZtTc_QD4zA\">Baggers<\/a>, who has several videos about Lisp, posted a nice video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VnWVu8VVDbI\">setting up an Emacs\/Slime\/Quicklisp\/SBCL system<\/a>. He does this on a Windows system because it&rsquo;s the most difficult system to get things going on. If you&rsquo;re using Linux or macOS, the process is similar but not quite as fiddly. The video covers the whole process starting with downloading a copy of Emacs, setting up slime, downloading SBCL and installing Quicklisp. <\/p>\n<p> I&rsquo;ve often said that if you&rsquo;re looking for a great Common Lisp system, it&rsquo;s hard to do better than SBCL but n00bs may find it difficult to get things set up and working. Baggers&rsquo; video is an excellent how-to for setting up a Lisp system from scratch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a language as old as Lisp, there are a surprising number of queries asking how to set up a Lisp environment. If you&rsquo;re a Lisper, your answer to this is probably Emacs\/Slime\/Quicklisp and one of the Lisp systems such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,18,14],"class_list":["post-6510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-common-lisp","tag-emacs","tag-lisp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}