It’s Friday, so I though it would be nice to have a social topic here. So here’s a bunch of questions to stir up some discussions:

  • Which Lisp do you most often program in?
  • What does your Lisp development environment or IDE look like?
  • How did you get started with Lisp? Did you follow any particular articles to set up your environment or begin learning Lisp?
  • Paolo AmorosoEnglish
    1•1 year ago
    • Which Lisp do you most often program in?

    These days I use mostly Interlisp and Common Lisp under Medley, the restored and revived Interlisp-D environment of the Xerox Lisp Machines developed at Xerox PARC since the early 1980s.

    • What does your Lisp development environment or IDE look like?

    Here you can see some screenshots of my Medley environment. It comprises all the traditional Interlisp development tools such as the SEdit structure editor, the File Manager, and Masterscope.

    • How did you get started with Lisp? Did you follow any particular articles to set up your environment or begin learning Lisp?

    In the early 1990s I took an introductory computer science class based on SICP and fell in love with Scheme. I later learned Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp, and I’ve been programming almost exclusively in Lisp on and off since then.