Damien Kick wrote:
John Quigley gave a presentation on using SLIME with SBCL on a Debian system yesterday during the Chicago LUG meeting.
I saw it, and it was delightful. I remembered enough of it to be able to get SLIME working for me on Mac OS X with SBCL and Aquamacs Emacs... I also managed (in part) to get Viper mode working with SLIME. VIPER is "Viper Is a Package for Emacs Rebels" :-) It's a vi emulation mode for Emacs designed for those who don't necessarily want to use Emacs commands but want to stick with vi.
After the presentation, John and four of us who came to the meeting mostly because of our interest in the chicago-lisp group got together for a brief chat about chicago-lisp.
I missed the LISP meeting, even though I was there for the other LUG presentations (being a Linux/UNIX kind of fellow, the LUG was as much fun as the LISP meeting....)
John asked if everyone was mostly interested in lisp in particular or rather a broader range of topics, for instance functional languages such as Scheme or ML. There was a bit of difference of opinion on this topic and I think it might still be a bit of an open question.
I spoke with John afterwards, and that sounds about right. Personally, I'm interested in LISP in particular - and not in AI.
One suggestion was that the group might want to start host a web-site, perhaps as an excuse for a group project.
I tried Araneida; if AllegroServe is already chosen, that's fine; if not, Araneida might be fun. It *is* an open source project after all, and it works fine on SBCL (another open source project...). Araneida is the web server driving CLiki. Would it be possible to create a SLIME link to a development web server/LISP image at the hosting site? Sounds like that would be fantastic - and it is possible over SSH (found a link describing that very thing...)