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Re:The Failure of Lisp? A Reply To Brandon Werner by lallysingh on Thursday September 18, 2008 @08:03PM (#308750)
Lisp's biggest problem is the simple fact that most other languages already ship with most nonwindows boxes. _Successful_Lisp_ is a good book (amongst others), but what do you type the code into?

Until today, I hadn't heard of SBCL. I've been fiddling in e-lisp, which is a tragedy of its own sorts. The only mention of SBCL in "google:lisp linux" is an ad. I don't think I'm the only one still afraid of a $5k entrance fee for lisp.

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Re:The Failure of Lisp? A Reply To Brandon Werner by dlweinreb on Saturday September 20, 2008 @08:30PM (#310151)
Soon, lisp.org will be redone to make it easy to find good free Lisp implementations. Meanwhile, check out my survey paper at http://common-lisp.net/~dlw/LispSurvey.html.
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