What Common Lisp interpreter is most widely used? Is it CMUCL? I read everywhere online that "Emacs is the favorite of most LISP programmers," but Emacs (when you use M-x lisp-mode or M-x ielm) does not provide support for all of Common Lisp. I've bought a couple ANSI Common Lisp books (such as Graham's), and they all use ">" as a prompt and say that most Lisp interpreters use ">" as a prompt. CMUCL uses a "*". Obviously, I do not really care what my prompt looks like, but this prompt lead to believe that maybe there is some standard Lisp interpreter that the majority of Lisp programmers use. Is CMUCL an alternative to one standard Lisp Interpreter that I don't know about, or is CMUCL the standard, or is CMUCL just one of many equally popular Lisp interpreters? I am new to Linux (and therefore Emacs) and Lisp.
I'd really appreciate it if you could fill me in. Thanks! Orhan Ayasli
