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Re:The Idea of Lisp by icheishvili on Friday December 16, 2016 @05:14PM (#13197379)
This is the challenge I have as well. I want to use Lisp for a lot of things but the reality is that parsing PDFs, tagging parts of speech, and then throwing it all into Postgres/Elasticsearch is a lot easier with a bunch of "gem install" commands than anything I've seen for Common Lisp.
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Re:The Idea of Lisp by white-flame on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:14PM (#13198979)
(ql:quickload "packagename") works great in Common Lisp.

The QuickLisp package manager has been around for a few years now.

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Re:The Idea of Lisp by icheishvili on Saturday December 17, 2016 @03:38AM (#13199893)
QL is a package manager. I'm talking ecosystem/libraries. Use QL to install postmodern and tell me how you feel about its time zone support.
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