Centers of community involvement:
* http://www.cl-user.net/
* http://common-lisp.net/
* http://planet.lisp.org/
* http://www.cliki.net/
* IRC channels: http://www.cliki.net/IRC
* Mailing lists (like this one)
There's usually a lot of people in the IRC channels, and they tend to be
discussing very complicated things, but are willing to help on simpler
questions as well. I've found that questions asked on IRC are best
accompanied with a example of your issue posted to lisppaste:
http://paste.lisp.org/new/lisp. Be prepared to be told to google it, or
read dense documentation, doing those first is often best.
Be patient with people, especially yourself. Learning to think in lisp
takes a lot of practice. Sometimes there isn't a direct match for a
common solution from another language, there's a different concept for
how to solve that problem in lisp that seems very non-obvious for a
bit. You'll have to back up a bit and think about the problem you're
trying to solve, instead of how to implement the solution you're used to.
Thanks,
Ryan Davis
Acceleration.net
Director of Programming Services
2831 NW 41st street, suite B
Gainesville, FL 32606
Office: 352-335-6500 x 124
Fax: 352-335-6506
Nicolas Martyanoff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a 21 years old french student which has just discovered Lisp. I've
> been astonished by this language; I've been practicing C, C++, Perl,
> Python and Php for years, and this is the first time I find a language
> so harmonious and graceful.
>
> However, I'm badly deceived that there is no real community. I'm coming
> here without hope, since I see the history of the mailing-list (no
> post...).
>
> I've been doing a lot of Google searchs to find some stable libraries,
> and most of the libs I found were abandoned, hardly ever finished.
>
> In this context, it's really difficult to be motivated about working
> with Lisp. It's a language very tempting, but it seems it has no future.
>
> Anyway, I want to believe in Lisp, and I want to use it (I'm working on
> an online 2D RTS video game, and would want to use Lisp for server and
> client).
>
> So, here I am :)
>
> Regards,
>
>
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