Re:Show HN: A notebook-style Common Lisp environment
by Jach on Sunday July 09, 2017 @12:44AM
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You might be interested in reading this state of the ecosystem for 2015: http://eudoxia.me/article/common-lisp-sotu-2015 I wouldn't expect things to look any worse since then (an interesting characteristic of Lisp is that unlike say JS materials which are a few years old are often obsolete, there are lots of excellent multi-decade-old Lisp references and code you can still use).
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Re:Show HN: A notebook-style Common Lisp environment
by neutronicus on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:07AM
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FWIW, I reached for CL to do some scripting and found using UIOP for filesystem tasks (as recommended here) intensely painful.
Re:Show HN: A notebook-style Common Lisp environment
by Jach on Sunday July 09, 2017 @04:12AM
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Good to know, I haven't used it. I haven't really done much with scripting in Lisp (I think I'm actually still within the first 10k written lines of it, for whatever that metric is worth) so for filesystem and OS tasks I haven't gone much beyond the standard and some sb-ext functions. I don't really have a need or desire to move from bash or python for scripting; it's the larger programs that make me wish I had Lisp around when I don't.