Hello, Quoting Nicolas Martyanoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm a 21 years old french student
Where in France do you live? > 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...). The Lisp community, although small compared to that of Java or others, is alive and well. It mostly hangs around the comp.lang.lisp newsgroup, and the #lisp IRC channel is always quite busy. > 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. What kind of libraries did you need and have not found? > 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). This is a good idea. I'd recommend trying the following libraries: - usocket for networking (http://common-lisp.net/project/usocket/) - pal for 2D graphics (http://common-lisp.net/project/pal/) If you need to see some code to help you get started, you might be interested by a little bomberman-like game prototype available on http://matthieu.villeneuve.free.fr/dev/games/ (should work but needs some optimization, currently there is only one thread on client side, doing update, graphics and networking). Cheers, -- Matthieu Villeneuve _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
