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[pro] Introducing the list
by Hans Hübner 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hi folks, this list has been created in response to an email by Dan Weinreb, addressed to a bunch of Common Lisp programmers that he knows, who wondered where to turn to for some advice on the existence of certain Common Lisp libraries. comp.lang.lisp was deemed not to be the right place, because it is full of spam and requires sophisticated special-purpose software and regular care taking to be readable. Thus, we came up with the idea of a mailing list targeted at people who already know and use Common Lisp and who don't want to discuss the merits of it or how other languages are worse or better. This is an implementation-agnostic list. Discussing any Common Lisp implementation is on-topic, although implementation specific questions are probably better discussed on the respective mailing lists. We generally also know why we chose one implementation over another, so "my implementation/your implementation"-type discussions should not be started unless they are technical (as opposed to license-oriented). Be inclusive and friendly, accept commercial and non-commercial developers. Let's not use the word "free" here, unless it is about beer. :) -Hans

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[pro] Greetings
by Peter Seibel 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Greetings fellow Lisp pros. Heh, this list should have been called "pros" and then when someone starts a list for beginners (i.e. one to help grow the list of Lisp programmers) it could have been called "cons". ;-) -Peter -- Peter Seibel http://www.codequarterly.com/

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Re: [pro] How to get useful Lisp info?
by Hans Hübner 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Daniel, On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 16:18, <dherring(a)tentpost.com> wrote: > If pro(a)cl.net will be an implementation-agnostic place for serious CL > users, it needs an accompanying place for new user questions. Is that > place lispforum.com? a new mailing list? I'm a bit sceptical regarding a new mailing list for CL beginners. For one, it would further support fragmentation. For another, starting the two lists at the same time will likely lead to confusion (where do I post this?). I think we should start get pro@ going and then maybe consider adding a new list for beginners. -Hans

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Re: [pro] How to get useful Lisp info?
by Hans Hübner 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:11, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > One thing which is very useful for those who love fori or searching the web > would be to ensure the list archives are public and perhaps subscribe gmane. > At the ECL mailing list we have a gmane subscription > (http://news.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.ecl.general) which works fine for those > who do not want to subscribe but still are interested in the topics which > are discussed -- and I believe the pro@ mailing list would be way more > interesting than ECL's :-) Thanks for the suggestion. I have sent a subscription request for the list as gmane.lisp.pro to the Gmane administrators. -Hans

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