Re: [pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

Sam Steingold wrote on Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 04:16:10PM -0500:

I think Franz, Lispworks, ITA et al are vital parts of the "lisp community". I think the fact that none of them is paying anyone to maintain SLIME, ALU wiki, common-lisp.net &c is indicative of understandable but deplorable corporate myopia ("public goods cannot be produced by private businesses").

From my perspective SLIME just doesn't work well enough that I would

have put some steam behind it.

Of course ilisp, which did work better for me, is now way too behind the times to be rescued. So I guess I'm stuck unless I want to go with Hemlock?

Franz and Lispworks all have their own Emacs and CL editor, respectively. That might have to do with it :-)

Martin