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Lisp in a box - start quickly

18 points by mrtron ↗ HN
http://gigamonkeys.com/lispbox/

Interested in learning lisp, or need to get started quickly? Check it out, quite a few people have said it helped them out.

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oditogre
I downloaded this a long time ago. I lost interest in lisp, but I keep it around at work and home because it makes a damn fine calculator, especially when you have a multi-step problem. You can just type it in in the order that you would say it out loud, whereas on a normal calculator (like calc.exe) you have to rearrange it to suit standard order of operations.
Nicolay77
Funny, I started doing a lisp interpreter a while back and I have only got to the part where it makes a damn fine calculator.

I believe my version is much handier than having to use Emacs.

sohail
Or on Ubuntu:

apt-get install slime sbcl emacs cl-asdf

:-)

rman666
@oditogre:

That is truly one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Thanks for exploding my brain.

icey
Why aren't you just pointing your submissions to what you're linking directly? It seems like that's the way hyperlinked posts ought to work.
mrtron
If you put a link - you can't put a comment (or so I understand). Also this was more meant as a discussion, the link isn't the important part.
jimbokun
If you have a Mac, also consider Ready Lisp.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26203/ready-lisp

SBCL bundled with Aquamacs, a version of Emacs designed to integrate with the Mac interface (including Mac keyboard shortcuts).

mrtron
I had a friend who was new to Lisp check it out - and they really liked how simple it was.

So definitely a good option to get started.