The common problem to get more people liking & using Common Lisp language is to make it easier to ride inside the IDE. Since you can not decently use Common Lisp outside of Emacs & Emacs already requires a lot of learning for it self,this creates the situation where people are pushed away from everything related to Common Lisp. So in this situation if we could have some good integration with simpler editors than Emacs,then i would be completely in Common Lisp realm!
Not sure I agree. There is integration that is decent with VSCode you have hybrids like the CLOG Builder that this year I plan on further specializing the IDE aspects of it, Lisp is more of an environment you program in like small talk. Small talks didn't fail or make it on the basis of an IDE same with CL.
Thank you David. Common Lisp needs more people like you that have mastery over the language to actually teach and popularize it on UA-cam. Lisp is powerful but from what I read it's very hard to master because it has too many ways to do the same thing. There's also the problem of reading other lisp code bases that use macros too much and you're not basically reading Common Lisp anymore.
I am not a master yet of Lisp but i am working towards it vigorously and am happy to take others along for the ride with me :) I think most can become very productive in Lisp (if have prior) experience in weeks (I wrote the CLOG framework in five months or so after a month of self study). I rarely meet a master in any language and to be honest language mastery of a language is not as important as knowing how to assemble software. Common Lisp though is very worth the effort to master. It offers a different perspective in programming, includes most paradigms, extremely stable language and toolsets, has the tools for robust programming and an amazing community of exceptional masters ready to help.
The common problem to get more people liking & using Common Lisp language is to make it easier to ride inside the IDE.
Since you can not decently use Common Lisp outside of Emacs & Emacs already requires a lot of learning for it self,this creates the situation where people are pushed away from everything related to Common Lisp.
So in this situation if we could have some good integration with simpler editors than Emacs,then i would be completely in Common Lisp realm!
Not sure I agree. There is integration that is decent with VSCode you have hybrids like the CLOG Builder that this year I plan on further specializing the IDE aspects of it, Lisp is more of an environment you program in like small talk. Small talks didn't fail or make it on the basis of an IDE same with CL.
Thank you David. Common Lisp needs more people like you that have mastery over the language to actually teach and popularize it on UA-cam.
Lisp is powerful but from what I read it's very hard to master because it has too many ways to do the same thing.
There's also the problem of reading other lisp code bases that use macros too much and you're not basically reading Common Lisp anymore.
I am not a master yet of Lisp but i am working towards it vigorously and am happy to take others along for the ride with me :)
I think most can become very productive in Lisp (if have prior) experience in weeks (I wrote the CLOG framework in five months or so after a month of self study).
I rarely meet a master in any language and to be honest language mastery of a language is not as important as knowing how to assemble software.
Common Lisp though is very worth the effort to master. It offers a different perspective in programming, includes most paradigms, extremely stable language and toolsets, has the tools for robust programming and an amazing community of exceptional masters ready to help.
Very nice tutorial!
I hope to work on doing the rest of the book in the early months of this coming year. Thanks!