XenWryla LeFae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I am a self-taught zoper and pythoner these days.
Welcome. :) Have you peaked at the cliki (<http://cliki.net/>)? It is an invaluable resource. I would also recommend the Lisp Newbies mailinglist (<http://www.cliki.net/LispNewbies>) if you don't feel quite ready to post to comp.lang.lisp yet. If you like IRC you'll probably find <http://www.cliki.net/IRC> interesting. I came directly from Zope and Python to Common Lisp myself. > My question is this, what is going to be the easiest way to get up and > running doing web programming in lisp so that my learning curve is as > flat as possible? IMHO (<http://cliki.net/IMHO>) might not be the best web-application framework there is, but it will certainly allow you to create web-applications relatively quick. There are other options; <http://www.cliki.net/Web> has several of them. You might be interested in LML: <http://lml.b9.com/>. Depending on how you learn best and how proficient in Common Lisp you aim to become, I'd recommend that you read the ANSI Common Lisp standard. You'll find a link to it from the ALU cliki (<http://alu.cliki.net/Standard>). (Google is also your friend, naturally.) > Persistence in lisp? I've used UncommonSQL and CL-SQL with and without IMHO on several occasions and they worked quite well. You'll find them both at - you guessed it - the cliki. A friend of mine, Thomas Stenhaug, is currently writing cl-pile which is to Common Lisp what pickle and shelve is to Python; only it has transactions and several other neat features. He hasn't announced it to the public yet (although I have been a happy beta-tester for a while now) and he is currently relocating to France so it might still be several months before you see an announcement from him. If you want to give him a hand in testing or coding you'll reach him at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I don't know what platform or operating system you are going to run your software on but if you by chance are running Debian you are in great luck. 'apt-get install cl-imho' will get you going in a flash. 'apt-cache search cl | grep "^cl"' will give you a whole host of Common Lisp packages. Erik.
