On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:47 PM, emeka okafor <emeka_1978@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thank you all for the responses. Basically emacs + slime seem to be the standard way to write abcl programs.
It's what most people use. You can go relatively far with Eclipse and a REPL in the console view, but Emacs + SLIME is much more tightly integrated.
I have used emacs some years ago but I think I will have to relearn it to be able to be productive again.
If it can comfort you, I've been using Emacs for years, but I never went much farther than basic cut'n'paste, string-replace, and the few SLIME commands that I use (load/compile a file or a single function definition). My .emacs looks like a noob's. So, you don't have to delve too much into Emacs if you don't want to.
1) You said "acbl should be a NB project natively" what do you mean by that?"
That you should be able to open ABCL (source) as a NetBeans project... but actually that's not much relevant because probably you want to just use abcl, not hack on it :P I have done both, and sometimes I mix things.
2) Does anyone on the list have experience with lispbox? I read it defaults to clozure.
I don't, but in my experience setting up Emacs and SLIME from scratch is simple enough on every major OS. Alessio -- Some gratuitous spam: http://ripple-project.org Ripple, social credit system http://villages.cc Villages.cc, Ripple-powered community economy http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear ABCL, Common Lisp on the JVM http://code.google.com/p/tapulli my current open source projects http://www.manydesigns.com/ ManyDesigns Portofino, open source model-driven Java web application framework