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articulate-lisp.com is designed to fill a gap in the current (2012-2015) resources for getting started with Common Lisp. It's the work of mostly one person (Paul Nathan) so far, and represents his -best efforts and knowledge at this point in time. +best efforts and knowledge at this point in time.
-In particular, the style and idioms should not be taken as some +In particular, the style and idioms should not be taken as some mythical best practice, only what has worked for the author in the -past. +past.
-Feedback of all sorts will be gratefully welcomed. Contributions and -bug reports should be done via the Github location for maximum -coordination. +Feedback of all sorts will be gratefully welcomed. Contributions and +bug reports should be done via the +Github location for maximum +coordination.
-Happy hacking! +Happy hacking!
+Authors, ordered alphabetically by first name:
The CLISP Common Lisp implementation is a good +general-purpose interpreter licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2. Though not as +popular as SBCL, it sports an intuitive user interface, a byte-code compiler and an +easy-to-use debugger.
+ +It also includes various useful extensions to the official ANSI standard, such as +foreign function calls and a socket interface. (Note however that using +implementation-specific features binds one to the GPL.)
+Download one of the packages or pre-built binaries.
+Download one of the packages or +pre-built binaries.
+ +On Ubuntu/Debian-based systems, you can install CLISP from the repositories with the +following command:
+ +apt-get install clisp
+
+On Arch-based systems, use:
+ +pacman -S clisp
+
+On Fedora (>= 18, if you have an old version of Fedora, replace dnf with
+yum):
dnf install clisp
+
+On Gentoo:
+ +emerge -auvDN dev-lisp/clisp
-This page is a stub that needs to be expanded
-Note that you will probably need admin privileges to install any software on your
+computer (e.g. by using sudo)