* Orhan Ayasli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What Common Lisp interpreter is most widely used?
I don't know if there is an implementation that is more used than any other implementation, but it doesn't really matter, for learning purposes at least. You should be able to use any standard implementation you like. Note that there are varying degrees of Ansi compliance, though. CMUCL and SBCL are both fairly compliant, AFAIK, so they should be safe bets. > Is it CMUCL? I read everywhere online that "Emacs is the favorite of > most LISP programmers," Yes, for editing Common Lisp, it doesn't mean that Emacs Lisp is a Common Lisp. What people do, though, is run their Lisp toplevel inside Emacs, using a so-called inferior mode. See ILISP for this: http://ilisp.sourceforge.net/ > 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 "*". The prompt isn't standardized, as far as I can tell. I don't know what Lisp Graham uses, but there's always the possibility that he has just chosen to use ">" regardless of what his implementation uses. Also, you can usually customize your prompt, so you can't identify the implementation by the prompt. I know Gnu Common Lisp uses ">" as its standard prompt, but last time I checked, it wasn't particularly Ansi-compliant. I suggest you just pick one that you like. CMUCL is fine. -- Johannes Gr�dem <OpenPGP: 5055654C>
