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Re:Lisp: No easy download by aerique on Sunday September 06, 2009 @02:54AM (#807563)
Ha, good point! I've been using CL for quite a few years now so this issue isn't even on my radar. But this question could be asked for C++ and probably Scheme as well.

This is a 'problem' for languages with no single implementation that's easily solved by Google. "common lisp download" gives the CLISP site as top hits which is a good CL to start with.

Re:Lisp: No easy download by tsally on Sunday September 06, 2009 @02:57AM (#807564)
Not at all with Scheme. PLT Scheme is an awesome example of a centralized, well documented language with easy installation and application deployment.

Note the prominent download link on the home page: http://www.plt-scheme.org/

Re:Lisp: No easy download by mahmud on Sunday September 06, 2009 @03:13AM (#807574)
Please ignore the troll article. Anybody interested in a programming language can google for implementations and compare them. I don't understand why there needs to be a single lisp.exe binary.

The abundance of Scheme implementations is actually a good thing: there is a scheme for every n-choose-r machine configurations :-)

http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq-standards#implem...