Contact "Heow Eide-Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who is the person responsible for the LispNYC Users Group. This is a very active group (they have been selected to participate in the google summer of code three years running).
As to "the canonical choice"... well, that's common lisp. Its not really much about the implementations, although they all have their own feature set. However, each one conforms quite well to the ANSI standards. Any of the implementations will do. You've been conditioned to expect a circus, I think. Java, Ruby, Rails, Python... all the latest, greatest,... noise. Lisp is a much more contemplative environment but one that has everything I find I need. I've been using Lisp on the job but have recently needed to learn Python, which has been called "Lisp without parens" (but I'd have to characterize it more as "BASIC with classes"). Every year there is a new, great language introduced and they all fade. Lisp doesn't. As for a useful IDE... Emacs. Seriously, there is no possible way I know of to improve on Emacs as a Lisp IDE. I've been using it to write Lisp code for 20 years. Tim _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
